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US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors

Posted by Soulskill on from the shooter-games-just-got-less-unrealistic dept.

RedEaredSlider writes "A new warfighting technology will soon be making its way to Afghanistan. US Army forces will be getting gunshot detection systems, which can tell where a shot was fired from. Approximately 13,000 gunshot detection systems will be given to individual footsoldiers later this month, according to the US Army. The system, called Individual Gunshot Detector, has four small acoustic sensors and a small display screen attached to the soldier's body armor that shows the distance and direction of incoming bullets. The sensors are each about the size of a deck of cards and can detect the supersonic sound waves generated by enemy gunfire. It alerts the soldier of the shot's direction in less than one second."

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  1. 13,000 gunshot detection systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    13,000 gunshot detection systems will be given to individual footsoldiers...

    Oh give me a break! How is each soldier going to carry 13,000 gunshot detection systems? Isn't one enough?

    1. Re:13,000 gunshot detection systems? by microbee · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you misunderstood. Get a clue, there is only one detector!

      What the system does is that it detects if someone fires 13,000 gunshots at you.

  2. Genius in Marketing. by geekmux · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...The system, called Individual Gunshot Detector...

    Really? All kinds of kick-ass program names and acronyms in the Military's arsenal of weapon nomenclature, and the best you could do was..."Individual Gunshot Detector"? Sheesh.

    I guess there is one benefit to that generic name...I'll reserve the right to slap the shit out of anyone that asks the question "what does it do?"

  3. I always thought "ouch!" by unassimilatible · · Score: 1, Funny

    was a personal gunshot detector.

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  4. LOL he's right by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sup dawg, I heard you like gunshot detectors, so I put 12,999 gunshot detectors in your gunshot detector so you can detect shots while you detect shots while you detect shots while you detect shots whi [FIELD TRUNCATED]

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  5. Re:"supersonic sound waves" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoosh!

    (which is sonic)

    ((if it were supersonic, it wouldn't be sound))

  6. Or by Mr+Thinly+Sliced · · Score: 5, Funny

    4way Sonic Kinetic Inference Notifier