JeepHammer
Moderator
Unclenick,
You went past what I have done personally.
I've seen every component made, I've seen every component tested in about every way the 'Egg Heads' could come up with,
The projectiles, barrels, and ballistics are still the same as they always were...
No big break troughs, just very slight incremental advances in STATISTICAL ANALYSIS.
After all the billions spent during 'Star Wars' research, and all the trillions spent building and testing new weapons systems...
The only real advance is data collection and analysis.
None of the 'Super Duper' ballistic weapons research projects, with big changes in materials or design, ever lived long enough to see standard production.
The old steel barrel, non-ferrous projectile contact point is still king,
And all advances in 'Sighting' are based on actual trajectory observations,
Added accuracy has yet to be designed into the projectile or barrel through some space age design or use of materials.
They still shoot the thing, in about all conditions,
Track the round, log the data, and refer to those data tables instead of coming up with,
"This design/load will be dead accurate" and that statement being so.
I saw guys 'Shoot Computers', design something that was 'Perfect' on the computer models,
Just to have it shoot like crap in the real world...
I saw it for over 10 years, so I'm pretty sure it's still happening.
We are still shooting the same basic design firearms,
The same basic design ammo,
And the same basic distances since the Civil War,
And the accuracy has only slightly improved.
Considering the technology advances in everything else...
I'd say we are up against one of those physics curve apexes and all gains from this point forward are going to take a computer to identify...
You went past what I have done personally.
I've seen every component made, I've seen every component tested in about every way the 'Egg Heads' could come up with,
The projectiles, barrels, and ballistics are still the same as they always were...
No big break troughs, just very slight incremental advances in STATISTICAL ANALYSIS.
After all the billions spent during 'Star Wars' research, and all the trillions spent building and testing new weapons systems...
The only real advance is data collection and analysis.
None of the 'Super Duper' ballistic weapons research projects, with big changes in materials or design, ever lived long enough to see standard production.
The old steel barrel, non-ferrous projectile contact point is still king,
And all advances in 'Sighting' are based on actual trajectory observations,
Added accuracy has yet to be designed into the projectile or barrel through some space age design or use of materials.
They still shoot the thing, in about all conditions,
Track the round, log the data, and refer to those data tables instead of coming up with,
"This design/load will be dead accurate" and that statement being so.
I saw guys 'Shoot Computers', design something that was 'Perfect' on the computer models,
Just to have it shoot like crap in the real world...
I saw it for over 10 years, so I'm pretty sure it's still happening.
We are still shooting the same basic design firearms,
The same basic design ammo,
And the same basic distances since the Civil War,
And the accuracy has only slightly improved.
Considering the technology advances in everything else...
I'd say we are up against one of those physics curve apexes and all gains from this point forward are going to take a computer to identify...