Re: Cool Guns for your Games
Lots of cool stuff on there. I've seen Proto-versions of the shotty when I was in, The gunshot detector, we had unit sized ones (Battalion level) when I was in Kosovo, I was in the Talk when our base was attacked, and you can get information on where the rounds came from and where they are going as small as .38 they said, we saw 9mm and 7.62 that day get traced. Then security teams were sent to the originating locations to root out combatants... So I know we have this tech avalible, but I didn't know it was down to personnel sized yet (though, I did get out 11 years ago now, lol).
The MSS, I was lucky enough to be in the 82nd Aco. 3-325 (it's gone now, they have a Cav unit there now), and our Cco guys were testing this stuff out. Biggest gripes (again 10 years ago) was that the screen would back-light your eyes doing two things, 1) mark you at night (even a black screen gave off a ton of light at night), and 2) the cord at the back would get caught up on everything, I know 3 soldiers personally who cut they're wires every night with various things, because the tech guys wouldn't even try to make it wireless (they said it made it too prone to interference and hacking), tech must have improved in those areas... nice.
I've got an earlier version of the PEOS sitting at the foot of my bed... it's mostly heavier because it uses 1000 denir Cordura, but not by much... Now I still need to save up to get the plates. I saw some new plates being fielded in Yuma about a month ago (It was on the news) that were all fabric of some-sort that could stop multiple rounds from 7.62 rifles near the same region of the body (only needed to be just off, 1cm or so, of the first point of impact) without failing. I saw them test from pistol rounds through 7.62... and they could be small enough to fit in a Kidney plate pocket... Good stuff.
And that STTW is totally a new thing to me... Good find man.