Sniper Rifle Smartphone Device Attachment - Slightly Deceptive Image - An Explanation for the Smartphone Device Attached to a Machine Gun Not Directly Connected to the Rifle Scope

   

    The image of a smartphone device attached to a machine gun-type weapon, as shown in the image on the left, is slightly misleading. The image is used in this blog entry related to GTA Online, GTA Six, and GTA Six Online. The image in question, called System A, is clever marketing, but slightly deceptive.

    The setup, as shown in the image, implies a connection of some type, such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, with the actual scope of the weapon, to then stream the video feed to the smartphone device. Further, the smartphone device, as shown in the picture, implies some sort of ability on the software and hardware side, using proprietary algorithms for tracking and targeting of objects with precision, at a great distance.  

 

System B

  The image on the right showing System B, is good marketing. System B shows the smartphone device directly connecting the camera of the smartphone device, to the sniper rifle scope. There is a difference between "clever marketing" and "good marketing." The difference is out of scope for the topic of this blog entry.

    Smartphone devices such as Google's Android system or Apple's iOS system, may not be able to replace the precision that is offered by a sniper rifle scope or a regular scope, when the smartphone devices are used as weapons attachments. 

   Smartphones would be able to serve as part of a system for automated firing. One such system is a rifle or weapon of some type, attached to a rotating mount of some type, and controlled remotely using smartphones. 

    This type of system would be new technology, and would use a proprietary app, such as an app that is uploaded to Google Play and Apple Store services for download by users of the technology. 

    The image on the top-right showing a weapon-mount by Military Systems Group, is an example of a system that could be enhanced with smartphone technology. 

    A rough mock-up of the system would use a mechanism to lower and raise the system, rotate the system 360 degrees, and control the targeting and firing abilities of the weapon. A smartphone device would be used to control the system. Obviously, there are several advantages of using these types of weapon systems in conjunction with smartphone technology. 

    The U.S. Navy's Phalanx System is an advanced version of the system just described above. Abstractly, the Phalanx System can be viewed as an advanced rifle-type weapon, that is controlled by technology. 

    The technology in the U.S. Navy's Phalanx System, only for this example, could be the same advanced technology found in smartphones such as Google's Android, or Apple's iPhone. 

 

  An actual system that is closer to the rough mock-up described above, is the gun-firing system shown in the movie The Jackal, staring Bruce Willis. 

    The firing-system in The Jackal movie uses a laptop computer to remotely control a sophisticated rotating gun mount. The gun mount has an automatic weapon attached to it. 

    The system in the Jackal movie can be replicated using smartphone technology. Further, the gun-firing system that is enhanced by smartphone technology can be enhanced further, by mounting the system to a driverless, self-driving car. There are currently enough components in society, to create these types of systems. 

    Automated self-driving cars (and drones) have other uses. They can be used for riot control, as well as to serve low-level arrest warrants, where a search is not required for the arrest. High speed chases are another example. However, these topics belong in a different blog entry. CNN already has an entry on this topic. 

     In The Jackal movie, Bruce Willis' character mounts his firing-system to the inside of a mini van. The mini van is a 1996 - 2000 Dodge Caravan. An image is shown on the left. The image shows the firing system created by Bruce Willis' character, firing from the inside of a Dodge Caravan vehicle.

   

    A Dodge Caravan without the firing system created by Bruce Willis' character in The Jackal movie, is shown on the right.