Shooter-Detection 'Boomerangs' Help GIs

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Shooter-Detection 'Boomerangs' Help GIs
December 21, 2009
Army News Service|by Spc. Samuel Soza

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE, Basra - A new acoustic shooter-detection system called "Boomerang" detects incoming gunfire in Iraq and alerts Soldiers to the shooter's location, allowing them to immediately return fire.

"It's an anti-sniper detection system," said Pierre Jackson, an installer of Boomerang systems for the firm D3M.

"Basically, if someone is firing at you, it picks up exactly where they're firing from," he said.

When a Soldier is on patrol, the device is passive. It signals Soldiers with an audible and a visual warning if it detects an incoming, supersonic round.

It relays the direction, distance, and azimuth to the shooter.


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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. and it will take insurgents exactly two episodes before

they come up with a cheap, but deadly counter to this GREAT NEW TECHNOLOGY.

another example. WE have had no less than three versions of IED proofed vehicles, including the latest monster, the Stryker, and 14 gazillion megaton monstrosity that never met a road it did not destroy. The thing is so heavy that its own super durable wheel bearings wear out every 500 miles. And with each generation, the IED makers simply changed the shape of the copper head of their IED, creating either a stream of plasma, a bubble, or a pocket, depending on the armor they wanted to defeat. Guess what? The IEDs are still winning.