Recent content by MatthiasaGarnoth

Whats improbable about it? There is no fundamental change from what is possible right now. Its just a matter of scale. There are already AI trained to identify common firearms. (currently limited commercial security use, unsure on military use) There are already systems that can identify firing...

About 50 years of technological advance would be how, but i guess you can call it magic. Fundamentally its not unlike whats going on with driverless cars just on a larger scale and more precise. The computational requirements should only be within a a few orders of magnitude. You train some AI...

Obviously which is why knowing where its actually pointed is of vital importance. If one doesn't know that much good luck. Its about staying out of that projected path, If the path intersects assume one is dead.

1) Dependent on sensor detection vs target. (not unlike a radar type system if using contemporary analogies) If you don't know where the shooter is but they know where you are, you are as good as dead. 2) Does not matter 3) The direction the weapon is facing is what matters not which way the...