If an iPhone battery now overheats and explodes in the service of the US armed forces, does this mean Apple Ltd. can be charged with deploying IEDs?
Snipers in Afghanistan Use iPhone to Kill Taliban
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Sorry idk how to quote people but JonnWood "Oh, I dunno. Sometimes you just wing 'em, blowing an arm off or something, and then you have to hope shock and blood loss take care of them.
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Hahaha, win. Good thing Mactavish didn't have an iphone or Modern Warfare 1 could have been a lot shorter.
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Hahaha, win. Good thing Mactavish didn't have an iphone or Modern Warfare 1 could have been a lot shorter.
ummm, any clever response can be put down....MurderousToaster said:
DAMN YOU APPLE
but breathing? yess
Human right bashing aside, that seems to be a really convenient app to have in modern warfare. I bet you this is gonna blow up big on the next NRA contest/meeting
It be awesome if after a kill the phone said "Would you like twitter about this kill" and you can click yes or no.
nonetheless it helps..Malicious said:
I'm all for more efficiently killing THE TERRORISTS, but an iPhone app? Well, okay. Anyone got the number for Artillery Barrages 'R Us?
Still waiting for the iPhone app that'll let you microwave a burrito. That would be very cool to have in a combat zone.
Still waiting for the iPhone app that'll let you microwave a burrito. That would be very cool to have in a combat zone.
Just because you have a calculator doesn't mean you can do Algerbra. You're right that an amateur with some proficiency in a sniper rifle could get it rigged up and find some use, but not anyone. They would have to be able to at least understand how the figures apply. Plus they don't exactly have surpluses of iPhones down there, at least I think so. I don't want you to be wrong just because of my extreme paranoia... _>Yodobama said:
With more national coverage, ironically. No wonder the US Military is protecting only the cities, where the only coverage occurs for AT&T and Iphones...LockeDown said:
OT:Speaking as an avid rifelman myself, there is no way I would put my dependance on that pos socalled phone and its software. Any sniper worth his training needs one thing, and one thing only: his spotter. If Apple has any serious thoughts that this gimmick could actually become standardly implemented, then I know those fools are smoking too much.
Show me a computer program that can do better sniping than a human, and I will show you at least one way to defeat it. Never forget: GIGO.
They do. I remember a documentary saying that the US and UK armed forces use them because it saves them having to develop their own controller to do exactly the same thing.CantFaketheFunk said:
Cool idea for an ap.
When your shot's over 100 meters, it's going to have a lot of calculations involved. Even then, it has as much to do with faith as it does with the science.
The world record is held by a .408 calibre distanced something nearing 2 km from one side of a valley to another. The problem with that kind of shot is they had few indicators of wind speed in the airspace over the centre of the valley along the bullet's flight path.
Ultimately, it was the first dust clouds kicked up by an approaching sandstorm that let the sniper team take the shot.
"One Shot, One Kill"
The world record is held by a .408 calibre distanced something nearing 2 km from one side of a valley to another. The problem with that kind of shot is they had few indicators of wind speed in the airspace over the centre of the valley along the bullet's flight path.
Ultimately, it was the first dust clouds kicked up by an approaching sandstorm that let the sniper team take the shot.
"One Shot, One Kill"
