Gyro stabilized guns are only good for fixed targets. If the target is
moving there is nothing to gain and in reality the system is even less
accurate.


"Steve" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:30:23 -0700, "Capt. JG"
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"Joe" wrote in message
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I heard on ABC news that the Navy Seals used "Gyro Stabalized" rifles
to take out the pirates.

I've never seen such a rifle..anyone know what she was talking about?

It was either the best shots on earth, or we have not heard the whole
story of the Pirate shots.

What is the best Pirate killing rifle?

Joe


I heard the same thing on ABC... interesting.

I'm not going to say I know for sure but the rifles they probably used
were the Mk11. http://www.navyseals.com/mk11-sniper-weapon-system-sws
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-25

The other likely choice would be the M14. http://www.navyseals.com/m14
But I'd say it's more like a 95% chance it was the Mk11.

*If* they were "gyro stabilized", the seals probably mounted something
like this: http://www.ken-lab.com/ onto the rifles. Stabilizing just
the scope does you no good because the scope is supposed to be
pointing at whatever the rifle is pointing at. If the scope is
stabilized and the rifle is bobbing around, what's the point?

I really don't know why they would need to stabilize the rifle if
they're perched on the deck of a destroyer shooting at a little
lifeboat that's bobbing around. The slow large motion of the
destroyer isn't going to be damped out by the gyro. For a hand-held
weapon, a gyro would only really be useful for damping out smaller,
faster vibrations. But if they use that gyro stabilizer for other
purposes, like shooting from helicopters, and train with them a lot,
they're not going to take them off just because they don't need them
on the ship. You shoot like you've trained for.

Steve