October 9, 2019
The U.S. Army's New Wild Idea: Rifles That Don't Miss
Is such a thing possible?
by Jared Keller
Key point: It's all about the optics.
In modern military history, “one shot, one kill†was once a creed only for the highly-trained sniper, the hidden assassin who sows fear among enemy ranks from afar. Not anymore: The Army wants to build a rifle scope and optics system that will never miss — and will turn every infantry soldier into an expert rifleman no matter how much they actually suck as a marksman.
OK, perhaps that’s a bit dramatic, but it’s the focus of a batch of optics and targeting programs currently underway at the Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. And this is no moonshot project: Branch officials expect to start testing a new fire control system on the Next Generation Squad Weapon — the “one end-all solution†to replace the M4 carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon — within the next three years.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-armys-new-wild-idea-rifles-dont-miss-86976
