"The Ateed, an Automated Weapon Station" Topic
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Tango01 | 23 Feb 2015 1:03 p.m. PST |
"At IDEX 2015, Military Industry Corporation – Sudan presented its Ateed remote weapon station. Ateed is capable of operating either a 12.7mm HMG or a 7.62mm MG and merges advanced surveillance and detection capabilites of its sensors to achieve excellent battlefield performance and raise weapon effectiveness. Ateed provides a reliable, flexible and powerful weapon station for fighting vehicles, and is capable to work with navy (battleship and vesssels) and permanent defense point's tactics. Ateed integrates a basic surveillance system capabilities including thermal imaging, high resolution day camera and LRF (Laser Range Finder-medium range 10 km). The system is also adapted for two common automatic weapons and vehicle adaptation for in service vehicle is available…"
Full article here link Question: Which rules you can used for this in the wargame table? Thanks in advance for your guidance. Amicalement Armand |
Oddball | 23 Feb 2015 2:12 p.m. PST |
They are already out there in movies. YouTube link Deleted (why, I don't know) scene from "Aliens". |
javelin98 | 23 Feb 2015 3:59 p.m. PST |
Hmmm… friendly fire and civilian casualties would be my concern with something like that. Still, it's a pretty cool piece of technology and has lots of potential. |
Stryderg | 23 Feb 2015 6:42 p.m. PST |
Which rules? 0 movement, same rate of fire and range as a similarly armed mini. Field of fire could be any of 360, 270, 180 or 90 degrees. No morale tests needed. Or maybe take a morale test (based on the sophistication of the sensors/AI) to see if it fires (could fire at friendlies, too). |
Dentatus | 23 Feb 2015 7:50 p.m. PST |
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doug redshirt | 24 Feb 2015 6:16 a.m. PST |
Why buy a Sudanese version when the Israelis have systems that they actually use on the border and we know work. |
Tango01 | 24 Feb 2015 10:17 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the guidance boys. Amicalement Armand |
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