The "AimLock Stabilized Weapon Platform" was recently tested for the first time during a live fire exercise by the U.S. Army. The system physically corrects aim using electromechanical actuators to redirect the rifle's line of sight.

It's a gun platform that vastly increases the chances of a U.S. soldier hitting running or moving targets at long range.

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This means a soldier simply has to aim near a target and the AimLock Stabilized Weapon Platform will correct for any mistakes, effectively creating a "snap to target" capability. The technology also has the potential to greatly improve the accuracy of small arms fired from moving vehicles and aircraft.

The AimLock Stabilized Weapon Platform was developed by the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) during AEWE 2017 Live Fire at Fort Benning, Georgia. It was designed by a civilian development company called Rocky Mountain Scientific Laboratory based in Colorado.

This odd-looking gun platform seeks to revolutionize the average infantryman's combat effectiveness by removing human error (especially shaking) that's always present whenever he fires his rifle.

It will aid soldiers firing at moving targets; mitigate "shooter wobble" when firing from the standing position; eliminate shooter error and significantly reduce target acquisition time.

An electromechanical system in the platform translates an aiming error signal from a target tracking system into dynamic "pointing corrections" to drastically reduce pointing errors due to man-machine wobble without specific direction by the user.

The active stabilization targeting correction system separates the "support" features of the handheld device from the "projectile launching" features, and controls their respective motion by electromechanical mechanisms.

The barrel and receiver of the rifle are independently articulated or insulated from the part of the rifle the operator holds.

A carriage holds the rifle, separating it from the operator's point of contact (the grips, butt, sights and trigger). In practice, this setup minimizes the rifleman's physical effect on the weapon.

AimLock's target tracking software and integrated processing hardware monitors the rifleman's target relative to his point of aim. A camera mounted to the front of the carriage collects target data.

The system's ballistic computer software then processes and extrapolates how best to correct the rifleman's aim. The operator sees the camera output either via a heads-up display or in his optic.

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