Built for stealth and sabotage, the HELMA-LP laser gun disables tech targets at range.
The photo for the article is hilarious. No opticals, just iron sights. I got the mental image of the dude trying to aim at a radio 500m away.
Just saying, you can absolutely hit something 500+ meters away with iron sights. Heck, I’ve personally done so at 900 meters. I’ll grant that I was prone, however.
I mean, not having any bullet drop must be pretty nifty but unless it can auto target to a certain degree, you’re gonna be better off trying to shoot it with a rifle or shotgun. I really doubt this thing can sustain fire.
No optics. /s
.It’s pretty common to avoid using products from other companies in PR photos and during promotional events/announcements(if there’s no deal). And the prominant picatinny rail is enough to tell any potential buyers that they can attach almost anything they want.
It occurs to me that whenever cool new weapons get used for the first time, it is still a sad day.
Its funny because humans see themselves as very smart, but they built a society where everyone has to work all day to pay their bills, because fantasy “money” is seen as a real, almost physical limitation like air and water, and decider of life or death despite just existing inside computer programs.
And humans still fight eachother, kill eachother, have wars on a global scale, because all big country leaders are narcissist psychopats.
Actually when taking a step back from all this, its very sad to be part of this species. What are we supposed to be proud of when we leave this planet? I guess at least we can try to not do harm on a personal level and try to bring up children who can think for themselves and are kind to others.
We could use a mulligan on the last 12 eons, give or take.
Unless aliens attack! No, wait… Ok yeah.
They have better lasers than France, IIRC.
I feel like this article is maybe half human-written at most. The bullet-pointed section in the second half is giving AI slop vibes
I think its the new normal and its quite annoying. Luckily i dont read most major sites… If I want to find out something, I can just ask chat gpt directly and get a list of pros and cons.
Obviously being aware that its scewed into supporting whatever the official “message” is.
Hold on - do you seriously use ChatGPT as a news source?
For historic events yeah, its great.
