{"id":7355,"date":"2021-03-02T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2021-03-02T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:15:06","slug":"estabilizador-de-punteria-del-fusil-para-el-combatiente-individual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=7355","title":{"rendered":"Estabilizador de punter\u00eda del fusil para el combatiente individual"},"content":{"rendered":"

En el marco del Programa \u201cNext Generation Squad Weapon\u201d (NGSW)<\/strong> que lleva adelante el US ARMY, se est\u00e1 experimentando con un sistema de estabilizaci\u00f3n de la punter\u00eda para fusil, denominado \u201cArms Control Enhancer\u201d (ACE).<\/strong> El sistema, adosado en el riel picatinny de la parte inferior del guardamanos del fusil, tiene como funci\u00f3n compensar los movimientos involuntarios de la mano de apoyo del soldado. Por similitud a los sistemas de estabilizaci\u00f3n de im\u00e1genes de lentes fotogr\u00e1ficos, permitir\u00eda mejorar la precisi\u00f3n en los disparos.<\/p>\n

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The Army is currently experimenting with a piece of technology as part of its Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) effort designed to enhance a soldier\u2019s aim by stabilizing a weapon\u2019s barrel against unnecessary or unintended movement, Task & Purpose has learned.<\/p>\n

The so-called Aim Control Enhancer (ACE), originally developed as part of U.S. Special Operations Command\u2019s now-abandoned \u2018Iron Man\u2019 suit effort, is currently undergoing evaluation \u201cfor possible use\u201d with the NGSW, according to Peter Rowland, a spokesman for the Army\u2019s Program Executive Office Soldier.<\/p>\n

The Army \u201ccontinues to manage multiple research, development, test & evaluation efforts, including ACE, as part of its mission to increase Soldier Lethality,\u201d Rowland told Task & Purpose in a statement, noting that projects like ACE are separate from the service\u2019s current prototyping efforts for the NGSW. \u201cAs a matter of policy, details of ongoing evaluations are not available for public release.\u201d<\/p>\n

The system, which attaches to the Picatinny rail that\u2019s a standard feature of most military rifles, can best be described as a \u2018mechanical isolator\u2019 for a soldier\u2019s support hand, according to Matt Angle, the Wyoming-based electrical engineer who originally developed the system before piquing the U.S. military\u2019s interest at a government-sponsored innovation summit in Austin, Texas back in 2016.<\/p>\n

According<\/a> to the original Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for the ACE, the system is elegant in its simplicity: \u201cA user selects a target or a direction, and then the system holds the weapon in the proper orientation. This effort seeks to merely correct for the shaking of the weapon that is not controllable by the user.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can prevent the barrel from moving in ways I don\u2019t want it to,\u201d Angle told Task & Purpose in an interview. \u201cBasically, you grab the device, and there\u2019s a mechanical linkage system that keeps the barrel still in certain ways. It doesn\u2019t automatically aim, but the whole thing is closer to image stabilization in a camera lens \u2014 as your hand shakes, the system moves to keep the barrel still.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ACE was originally developed under the moniker of a \u2018small arms stabilization\u2019 system under a 2017 SOCOM contract<\/a> as part of the command\u2019s Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS), better known as the \u2018Iron Man\u2019 suit<\/a> among the defense press for its futuristic vision of an operator clad in powered armor.<\/p>\n

The small arms stabilization system was one of several subsystems that the Pentagon flagged as mature<\/a> enough for \u201cfurther maturation and testing\u201d when the TALOS program shut down in 2019 after failing to yield an integrated suit of armor that SOCOM leaders had originally promised.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the small arms stabilization unit was on display during the 2019 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Florida when SOCOM officials revealed<\/a> that U.S. special operators were currently field testing <\/a>an ultralight version of the TALOS body armor called the Lightweight Polyethylene (PE) Armor for Extremity Protection.<\/p>\n

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The small arms stabilization system on display as part of the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit at the 2019 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Florida. (EPNAC via National Defense Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Army in Sept. 2019\u00a0selected<\/a>\u00a0General Dynamics-OTS, AAI Corporation Textron Systems, and Sig Sauer to develop prototypes of the NGSW\u2019s carbine and automatic rifle variants chambered in 6.8mm.<\/p>\n

More than 600 soldiers and Marines have contributed thousands of hours to the first of several soldier touchpoints, events designed to elicit direct user feedback \u201cin operationally relevant scenarios during developmental testing,\u201d as Army spokeswoman\u00a0Bridgett Siter\u00a0previously<\/a>\u00a0told Task & Purpose.<\/p>\n

According to the Army, the prototyping phase is scheduled to continue through the summer of 2021 with the goal of eventually down-selecting a single weapon vendor to produce the NGSW\u2019s carbine and automatic rifle variants and its accompanying 6.8mm ammunition.<\/p>\n

The NGSW program\u00a0is still on pace<\/a>\u00a0to eventually field two weapons \u2014 a rifle and an automatic rifle \u2014 to U.S. soldiers by 2022, which will replace both the M4 carbine and the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in infantry arsenals.<\/p>\n

Fuente:<\/strong> https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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