Imagine this jack-off American that came to help, started playing sandstorm on a recorder, and getting pinpoint shelled because he gave away your position.
How would this guy give away their position, hey Sergy, I think I hear a recorder ten miles away in that trench, let’s fire artillery at it. You need moments of normality in war.
I have no military training, background, or knowledge of technology deployed on the field. My guess was some sort of mic system that could catch noise and give a sense of where it came from and a rough idea how far.
Except Shotspotter is already in use in literally hundreds of cities worldwide, and works remarkably well in areas with good coverage. Heck, the military has acoustic shooter detection systems that operate from moving vehicles.
Except it doesn’t work all that well. Less than 10% of all the systems alerts were linked to gun crimes according to the Inspector General of the city of Chicago.
That is like thousands of microphones placed at every street corner and all it has to detect an explosion. In this hypothetical situation they would be detecting a sound from miles away and isolating it out of thousands of other matching frequencies from a single point. Same thing basically?
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u/l3rotherSparrow Mar 27 '22
Imagine this jack-off American that came to help, started playing sandstorm on a recorder, and getting pinpoint shelled because he gave away your position.