Spoiler tags are broken for me. Strange.

It’s also illegal in 14 states (plus D.C.) due to mag capacity.

That is a photoshopped picture, btw.

I can’t imagine that keyholing like that would be even be slightly tolerated and it’s not too difficult to get stable flight unless there are serious issues with the firearms.

If a bullet is tumbling out of the barrels, those barrels are seriously fucked. They are shot out, are using bullets that are too small or there are serious defects with the bullets.

A bad twist rate or extremely poor load generally won’t cause tumbling until much later. If the bullets start at slightly at supersonic and slow to subsonic quickly, that might do it.

I would like to see those videos of the keyholing you described, which is why my brain seems to have vomited all over this comment. (This has got me super curious, is all.)

I don’t get it. The key still gets declared, but it’s value is null. “name” in an empty object would return undefined, not null, correct?

(Yes, this joke whooshed, but I am curious now.)

That weapon seems to have a full-brrrt, so this is just standard recoil mitigation and you can hit targets at 50, 100, 500 and 1000 yds with one burst.

Lulz.

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He will be fine as long as he stays far away from any windows, cups of tea, moving vehicles, suspicious looking umbrellas, boats, planes or anything soft and furry.

Ok, that is smart. That would probably get the logic fast enough to keep up with the sensor “refresh rate” when pixel values are buffered from each sensor pixel. (My knowledge of digital camera sensors is a bit primitive. I read (or watched?) something a few months ago about image tearing caused by sensor scanning. This might matter, to a small degree? Dunno.)

My guess was that the lenses would be for filtering through whatever IR band is important and it’s those coatings that are the quality bit: https://www.edmundoptics.com/c/ir-lenses/655/

I am wondering if you can get lenses crafted specifically for jet engine IR signatures. If so, that would really boost the capabilities of any sensor…

I had a whole paragraph about that, but deleted it. The question focused on the IR sensor and processor so that put many other components out of scope.

Consumer grade MEMS sensors would probably just implode at those forces, but I can’t really speak to that.

Edit: While I was thinking more about this, it makes complete sense that any circuits would be analog, especially for that time period. With military hardware, durability and reliability is paramount**, so a stinger probably would use something way less complicated than a camera. I don’t know for certain, but that is most of the magic of military tech in general.

** lol. I actually said that. Replace “reliability” with “survivability” and that sounds cooler.

The sensor is just a 128x96 monochrome camera and it’s fairly trivial to programmatically determine where IR lights are at in the frame. The processor just needs to scan through 12,288 pixels, find the center of a cluster of bright pixels and return coordinate. It’s not a complex operation, but the devil is in the details: I suspect you would still need to overclock the hell out of it to process over 60fps. Manpads are fast with the Stinger clocking in at about mach 2. As the missile gets closer to the target, it wouldn’t take much of a delay to screw things up.

So sure, if you spend the cash on a quality glass, you could do a ton with that sensor. It’s probably years ahead of what was on the original Stinger, actually.

It might work, but the use-cases are extremely far apart here.

We are making progress and thanks for insulting me directly. It’s still not healthy, but a step in the right direction. You still have a tendency to lose track of how conversations flow, but that is something to work on in the future.

You bulk spreading propaganda is basically a form of warfare. In war, people shoot back so don’t cry about catching a little bit of shrapnel.

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By using that phrase, you are obviously a fascist. There hasn’t been much time for that to change its meaning by those who tend to use it.

Still, I don’t need (or want) your street address. Since we are talking about context, it would be really interesting to hear about your frame of reference. A country is fine. Wherever it is, there are likely hundreds of myths and stereotypes I could throw at you, but I won’t.

Seriously. Where do you live? The quantity of shit you pump out about every other place in the world leads me to believe that you live in an awesome place.

You assume quite a few things, don’t you?

I don’t consider this trolling. We are already a couple of steps into the process I outlined above, so consider it proving a point.

Also, I don’t give a fuck what you like or dislike or what dictator you choose to worship. Whatever. You do you.

The problem is that you are on an agenda to spread hate, misinformation and shift bias. Educating people is one thing, flooding social media with the intent to hurt is quite another. To me, you are not solving any problems, you arw attempting to create them.

Where the fuck are you from, anyway? What perfect utopia do you live in?

OP has a long history of repeating many of the Russian talking points about how Nazis are in Ukraine. Even if he doesn’t explicitly say that the invasion was justified, everything he posts is supporting it. (It depends if he is on a pro-Russian kick or a pro-China kick. He flip-flops a bit, but the methods are the same: Bait others, then get into pointless arguments ad-nauseam until the conversation devolves into name calling.)

He even has pages of references available at all times. It doesn’t matter what those references are as it’s a pain in the ass to dig into all that shit, and it’s a distraction more than anything else.

What is the context of the phrase now? Context is everything and you can’t just point at the history books and twist the meaning of what someone said.

Languages change and morph over time. They always have.

That’s it, thanks. I did try a quick search, but everything was obfuscated by current events and I was feeling extremely lazy at the time.

Russian concert halls are very strange places.

The last time something like this happened, the police ended up killing more people than the assailants. (If I remember correctly, they locked down the place down and gassed it.)