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The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here
The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.
For ACS cofounder and CEO Steve Simoni, a former Navy nuclear engineer, the best way to optimize a firearm for drone threats isn’t through novel accessories or enhanced training, but a combination of advanced robotics and a sophisticated AI that can take the guesswork out of target acquisition and tracking. While smart optics like SmartShooter’s SMASH fire control system also use AI and computer vision to track potential targets, Simoni believes that physically keeping a rifle zeroed in on a fast-moving drone is a more significant challenge than even a highly trained human soldier with an advanced weapon-mounted scope is equipped to address. “Our system is fully autonomous-capable, we’re just waiting for the government to determine its needs,” Brice Cooper, ACS’s chief strategy officer and a Green Beret veteran who previously served as head of US Special Operations Command’s counter-drone program, tells WIRED.
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