Timeline for Best Ergonomic Design for a handheld ranged weapon
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| Aug 3, 2019 at 8:33 | answer | added | Withadel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 3, 2019 at 0:43 | answer | added | Zeiss Ikon | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 3, 2019 at 0:05 | answer | added | Justin Ohms | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:00 | vote | accept | Morris The Cat | ||
| Aug 2, 2019 at 4:13 | history | protected | Monty Wild♦ | ||
| Aug 2, 2019 at 3:31 | answer | added | ltmauve | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 19:20 | comment | added | Michael J. | @Morris The Cat That's about the maximum effective range of any weapon aimed with a single hand. See navyadvancement.tpub.com/14325/css/…. | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 17:32 | comment | added | Morris The Cat | @MichaelJ.Eh... I have a hard time believing he could REALLY aim those things with any real precision outside of like.... 10 or 20 meters. Try taping a laser pen to your wrist sometime and see how precisely you can control it. =P | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 16:43 | comment | added | Michael J. | It sounds like you are describing Iron man's Repulsors. | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 16:05 | answer | added | Gnudiff | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 15:57 | answer | added | Keith Morrison | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 15:38 | answer | added | workerjoe | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 15:16 | answer | added | Cain | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 15:13 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | @MorrisTheCat, you would not want the weapon attached to the helmet because that means, by definition, you have to stick your head into the line of fire in order to use the weapon, which eliminates the possibility of, say, just suppressive fire when you're spraying and praying by just sticking the muzzle of the weapon out of cover. | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 14:17 | answer | added | Peteris | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 7:42 | answer | added | John Wu | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 6:08 | answer | added | SoronelHaetir | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 3:14 | answer | added | Greenstone Walker | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 2:54 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 1, 2019 at 1:58 | answer | added | Thorne | timeline score: 18 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 1:43 | comment | added | Thorne | What level of tech are you looking at? The tech options changes the answer | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 1:32 | answer | added | EDL | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 0:30 | answer | added | The Cosmic Truth | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 20:25 | answer | added | Jwrecker | timeline score: 28 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:47 | answer | added | puppetsock | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:19 | answer | added | Paul TIKI | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:17 | comment | added | Morris The Cat | @puppetsock science fiction. The mechanical process of how the force is projected downrange is no longer the most critical design constraint. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:17 | comment | added | Cadence | In the absence of any massive disruptive events, the theoretical benefits of a new ergonomic design will always have to be weighed against the practical drawback that all your existing soldiers (and instructors) already know how to use rifles and handguns, but would have to be retrained with a new weapon. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:16 | comment | added | puppetsock | What level of tech are you interested in? Modern sniper rifles? Bows? Spears and spear-thrower gadgets? | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:14 | comment | added | Morris The Cat | @AlexP I was just thinking of size and weight. Ergonomics aside, I'm assuming that the weapon you issue to your infantryman is going to be as powerful as he's capable of carrying and wielding effectively, which will probably tend more towards 4-5 kilos rather than 1 or 2. And yes, I had thought about Steadicams. Clearly so had James Cameron. =P avp.fandom.com/wiki/M56_Smartgun#cite_note-SF.26F48_41-12 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:14 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:09 | comment | added | AlexP | Why is a videocamera a better analogue? Clean slate is clean slate. And please note that both still and moving picture photographers have developed and use a large variety of devices to improve the stability of their cameras. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:07 | comment | added | Morris The Cat | @AlexP That's an interesting perspective... I hadn't thought about cameras. A videocamera is probably a better analogue for an infantry weapon, but why WOULDN'T you just attach a sidearm directly to the user's face if you could? Huh. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:04 | comment | added | Morris The Cat | @L.Dutch like a firearm, a bow is a compromise between optimal ergonomics and the mechanical requirements of the machine that's throwing the projectile. What happens if you don't need the limbs or the drawstring or to pull back the arrow? | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:03 | comment | added | AlexP | A (semi-)professional photo camera or a pair of binoculars is anchored to the body via the hands-forearms-elbows and the facial structure of the photographer. I dont' see why any alignment with the index finger would be necessary in order to maintain the aim line. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 18:59 | history | edited | Morris The Cat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2019 at 18:58 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | What are you looking for that a modernly designed bow doesn't answer? | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 18:53 | history | asked | Morris The Cat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |