Non-lethal Probe Targeting System for Long-Range Accuracy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing projectile weapons face challenges in accuracy due to environmental and user factors such as air density, wind velocity, humidity, and user tremors, especially at long ranges, leading to unpredictable targeting and potential failure in critical missions.
Innovation Solution
A targeting system that allows snipers to create, adjust, and execute precise impact points, accounting for ballistic and environmental factors in real-time, using a probe for precise targeting and enabling multiple impact points, while maintaining an environmental view, and incorporating a projectile with lift elements to counteract gravitational drop.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a sniper uses traditional aiming devices and projectile weapons for long-range targeting, then the sniper can maintain a safe distance from enemy forces, but environmental and user factors cause great impact on accuracy leading to unpredictable targeting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a non-lethal probe as an intermediary device that is launched first to the target location. The probe carries sensors that measure environmental factors (air density, wind velocity, humidity, temperature, barometric pressure) and provides real-time feedback to the control system. This intermediary probe acts as a messenger between the sniper's position and the target, enabling precise measurement and compensation of environmental factors without requiring the sniper to be in direct contact with the target.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a closed-loop feedback mechanism where the probe transmits measured environmental data back to the control system, which then calculates compensation values and adjusts the projectile-firing mechanism accordingly. The control system continuously monitors and adjusts for environmental factors based on real-time feedback from the probe, allowing the sniper to compensate for changing conditions and maintain high targeting accuracy despite environmental variations.
2Length of moving object
If a sniper uses high-powered long-range rifles with scopes to target distant subjects, then the effective range exceeds 1,000 meters, but environmental factors are exponentially amplified at longer firing ranges causing targeting inaccuracy
Solution Approach 1:
The probe serves as a remote intermediary that travels to the target location to measure environmental factors directly at the point of impact. This eliminates the need for the sniper to estimate or calculate environmental conditions over long distances, as the probe provides actual measurements from the target zone, enabling precise compensation even at extended ranges beyond 1,000 meters.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by launching the probe ahead of the lethal projectile to measure environmental factors and establish the exact point of impact conditions. The probe travels to the target location first, collects data about air density, wind, humidity, and temperature at the precise location where the projectile will strike, and transmits this information back to the control system before the main projectile is fired, allowing for pre-calculation of compensation values.
3Ease of operation
If a sniper uses advanced reflecting and collimating sights to reduce parallax effect and enable rapid acquisition, then both eyes can remain open and environmental view is maintained, but environmental factors still impact accuracy at long ranges
Solution Approach 1:
The control system receives real-time feedback from the probe about environmental factors and automatically calculates and applies compensation values to the firing mechanism. This feedback loop operates independently of the sighting system, allowing the sniper to use simplified sights for rapid acquisition while the electronic control system handles the complex environmental compensation, maintaining both ease of operation and high reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical sight adjustment mechanisms with an electronic control system that uses sensor data from the probe to automatically calculate and adjust for environmental factors. Instead of requiring the sniper to manually adjust for windage, elevation, and other environmental variables through mechanical sight components, the system uses electronic sensors and computational algorithms to determine the correct aim point, substituting mechanical complexity with electronic intelligence.
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AI summary
New targeting systems, hardware and techniques are provided, in which an auxiliary probe is first launched and deployed at a target. Extremely precise, deliberate targeting for future projectiles, weapons or non-lethal measures is then made relative to the position and orientation of the probe. In one embodiment, a system enables a sniper to plan measures with extreme precision within an environment, evaluate their effectiveness, and execute them extremely rapidly once satisfied. A user may create, set, adjust and execute Impact Point indicators, corresponding with projected points of impact of a projectile on a target subject within a target environment. The system may counteract and otherwise adjust for certain ballistic and environmental factors in a firing mechanism to maintain such an Impact Point fire ready, in real time. Yet the system is unobtrusive, allowing the user to engage ordinary targeting activity.