{"id":3996,"date":"2013-01-11T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2013-01-11T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:49:20","slug":"trackingpoint-to-introduce-precision-guided-rifle-scopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3996","title":{"rendered":"TrackingPoint to Introduce Precision Guided Rifle Scopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSBhZUeADRs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Consumer Electronics Show, one of Las Vegas&#8217; biggest conventions, is happening this week.\u00a0 At 140,000 attendees, CES is twice the size of the SHOT Show.\u00a0 For all the myriad gadgets and electronic toys being shown at CES, I thought this was one interesting bit of technology with future law enforcement potential.<\/p>\n<p>TrackingPoint, Inc. builds precision rifles in Austin, TX.\u00a0 Their latest advance is the patent-pending Intelligent Digital Tracking Scope, a kind of Heads-Up Display for a rifle.\u00a0 This advanced scope calculates a firing solution for the shooter, as it takes into account wind speed and direction, humidity, ballistic drop, parallax, incline and cant of the weapon, and other factors.\u00a0 Once the target is designated, the ballistics calculator and tracking engine in the scope prepare the firing solution and adjust the reticle accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>When the rifleman places the reticle on the properly designated targeting area, the trigger can be depressed for a precision guided shot.\u00a0 It reminiscent of the fire-and-forget missile technology, without the magic bullet.<\/p>\n<p>Streaming real-time Wi-Fi images can be sent from the rifle scope to an iPad or iPhone.\u00a0 This would have great usefulness for intelligence gathering, a sniper&#8217;s predominant function.\u00a0 Commanders back at the CP and team leaders in the field would be able to see what the snipers are seeing.<\/p>\n<p>TrackingPoint will be introducing rifles this month (hopefully at SHOT).\u00a0 The XS1 will be chambered in .338 Lapua and the XS2 and XS3 reportedly will be in .300 WinMag.<\/p>\n<p>At $15,000 to $20,000 (estimated), this technology won&#8217;t be cheap, but does deliver some awesome new potential in both its application of lethal force and in gathering information.<\/p>\n<p>Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Electronics Show, one of Las Vegas&#8217; biggest conventions, is happening this week.\u00a0 At 140,000 attendees, CES is twice the size of the SHOT Show.\u00a0 For all the myriad gadgets and electronic toys being shown at CES, I thought this was one interesting bit of technology with future law enforcement potential. TrackingPoint, Inc. builds precision rifles in Austin, TX.\u00a0 Their latest advance is the patent-pending Intelligent Digital Tracking Scope, a kind of Heads-Up Display for a rifle.\u00a0 This advanced scope calculates a firing solution for the shooter, as it takes into account wind speed and direction, humidity, ballistic drop, parallax, incline and cant of the weapon, and other factors.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3996\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,48,306],"tags":[597,598],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shot-show","category-swat","category-technology","tag-police-sniper","tag-swat-sniper"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-12s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}