Petrov

Actually that is pretty much what is being done in the new APC world. They are taking tracked tank hulls and slapping HMG and GL turrets on top of em: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namer

Did you miss my previous post? "In 20 years from now? Yeah they probably will have a dedicated LRF built in, they have something workable now. " You are wrong about the BORS. You quote the manual but you do not seem to understand that how that works. You can do exactly the same thing with a regular mil dot scope more reliably than BORS. Get target size figure out the size in mils and divide and you are all set. That method is difficult and and unreliable especially past 500 or so yards. Where in a regular rifle you use both hands to keep the rifle steady and measure the target in mils you keep mashing a button on the bors to do the same thing at a slower pace, I guess it is not a problem if your rifle is strapped to a heavy I beam or something. You better know the EXACT size of the target and be able to measure to the 0.1th of a mil. Good luck with that. Unreliable method that gets you sort of in the ball park if you are REALLY good. So that thing that BORS calls a range finder was done 40 years ago with a regular scope and a guy with more that 2 brain cells to rub together to do a divison. Or if you are lazy just use a mil dot master. Comparing BORS to real laser range finder is like comparing a shovel to a hadraualic excavator.

No BORS doesn't do ranging, the retricle on the scope does that, and it is slow and unreliable at best especially if you do no have good size reference, past 500 yards it becomes difficult to range things even with a first focal plane scope. You have to enter the range manually and you do not have to worry about the angle crap if you have a cosine indicator and it matter less and less when you stretch the shooting distance. BORS is a solution looking for a problem.

BORS is not a signt it attaches to your scope, BORS doesnt do windage or ranging so you are still stuck with having to use a rangefinder, BORS doesnt do windage calculations either so it is back to dragging out the ballistic calculator. Yeah I can bounce a beam off a building too, try bouncing it off a car or a human 13.5 in anything but perfect weather.

Range finders wont work too well in poor weather, lots of mirage and fog. Sights dont perform "ballistic" calculations, most give you a drop adjustment and after 500 yards it starts to change drastically depending on the conditions. Barometric pressure? That is done with a kestrel hand held weather station and you sure as hell not going to be attaching that to your rifle even 20 years from now. Good for 10Km? Even if earth was flat, I would like to see you being able carry an optics package that can work/see that far. Some technology simply doesn't scale and other doesn't play well with recoil. ---------- Post added at 13:48 ---------- Previous post was at 13:45 ---------- Why dumb it down? As a developer/ guy who wants to get paid I want my game accessible to as many people as possible. Not saying I agree with it, just the way things are. Personally I had a LOT of fun with sniper/spotter team giving the sniper instant ranges and all that. I hope they keep the laser range finder separate and make it visible with NVG's just like real life and that they would implement wind.

In 20 years from now? Yeah they probably will have a dedicated LRF built in, they have something workable now. You want to bring some balance to the range finder? Make it work like it works in real life. You bounce a laser off some one and they are wearing NVGS, it lets them instantly know that they just had a beam bounced off them and the direction of the beam. Or you know just not have a built in range finder for the sake of of and balance?

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Breathing is situational. If you are prone let all the air out, it flattens your body and always puts your NOPA in the same position. If you don't let all the air out it will almost be like you are on a beach ball, you will notice vertical stringing if you do not let all the air out. Offhand and barricade shooting kama sutra is another ball game.