Third hand In the US, testing a device to ease the weight of the weapon

The US Army has begun field testing of a special device that helps a soldier hold a heavy weapon in the hands of a long time. The device, called the "third hand", can be used, for example with a machine gun, said the press service of the research laboratory of the US Army.

As explained in the press service, the “third hand” is a mechanical device, fastened at the waist with one end, and fastened to the military’s weapon at the other end. It is quite light, because it is made of carbon fiber and weighs about 1,4 kilograms. The device allows you to evenly distribute the weight and stabilize the weapon, as well as free the hands of the fighter. During the initial tests at the test site, a significant drawback was revealed - as long as it is mounted on the body of a soldier, it is extremely difficult to fire from a prone position. In the future, this flaw was corrected, but the device needs some work.

When testing a device with an automatic rifle M4 weight 3,4 kg. it was found that the device allows to increase the accuracy of shooting and reduce fatigue of the hands of military personnel. Currently, the device is being finalized and tested with heavy machine guns М240В and М249, which weigh 12,5 and 10 kilograms, respectively.

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[hrych]

Why sticks out of his pants? Yes, this is not a hand, but ... another organ

[Thrall]

Interestingly, but this hand can wipe the ass or change the diaper during the battle with the Russians?

[Genry]

It’s funny to you, but I don’t understand how he will shoot up and down?
By lengthening-shortening the neck?

[Shurik70]

I immediately remembered the comedy "Fantomas raged" :)))

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: Genry

how will he shoot up and down?

I'm more interested in how to use this QUICKLY?

[Deune]

Why would they shoot up? It seems to be shooting and killing the wounded and civilians does not mean shooting up.

[hrych]

Quote: Thrall

and this hand can wipe the ass or change the diaper during the battle with the Russians?

In what there is no contradiction. Pampers allows you to not wipe. And when he surrenders to Russians, then to touch this stinkingly insignificant dumbly, not that his hands get dirty By the way, a joke, a joke, but when our Berlin was taken and the German soldiers distraught and paralyzed from fear were dragged out of the cellars, their portcuts were stained. There was something to say thanks to Goebels propaganda, they called on them to stop the ruthless hordes of the Scythians, but they caused only panic and horror.

[artifact]

Quote: Thrall

Interestingly, but this hand can wipe the ass or change the diaper during the battle with the Russians?

during the battle with the Russians, the main thing is that she knows how to rise to the top.
in general, this nonsense reduces mobility, especially in conditions of warfare in confined spaces (houses, ruins, etc.).
if used for assault, it’s better to focus on defense (armored shields)
and in general - overweight for a soldier ....

[Old anecdote]

This bubble definitely needs a third hand and a second horseradish in order to play war games in your yard.

[Aaron Zawi]

It looks monstrous.

[ANCIENT]

There is a built-in container for moonshine !!!

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: Aron Zaavi

It looks monstrous.

And if to attach to the exoskeleton, then in general it is complete horror. For the enemy.

[platon4387]

Moonshine is known only to the Slavs, they have whiskey,

[cost]

It looks monstrous.

And it’s quite traumatic - a close blow of a blast wave can forever leave this “arm” in the soldier’s width

[artifact]

Quote: Rich

It looks monstrous.

And it’s quite traumatic - a close blow of a blast wave can forever leave this “arm” in the soldier’s width

but immediately the genital prosthesis will self-install. the ladies will be thrilled ...!

[Maki Avellevich]

Quote: Aron Zaavi

It looks monstrous.

not that word.
But how, for example, will they cling to the ground with this agrigate if the impudent prodigy decides to make a replica?

[ANCIENT]

Fall on your back, and the enemy will die of laughter himself! !!

[universe1]

And if you need to quickly fall on your belly?

[hrych]

Quote: universe1

And if you need to quickly fall on your belly?

They are not used to crawling on the belly, although the teeth will definitely knock out

[ANCIENT]

Hrych - then genitalia will go on! !! "Impotento Americano" "" !!!

[hrych]

Quote: ANCIENT

genitalia will be here!

They have back priorities.

[Bad_santa]

It is necessary to select fighters with steel balls

[cost]

Personally, I am against. Sorry for naturalism, it’s inconvenient to bury such an opponent - you’re tormented by digging

[g1washntwn]

But do not cut birch trees on grave crosses, this is a plus of this development.

[ALEXXX1983]

When you look at the first photo, it seems that the device works on Viagra.

[Dezinto]

This is the same from the "Aliens" idea. There was such a machine gun.





In principle, the idea is not bad, but as for lying on the belly, or even sneaking along the wall ...... questions remain.

But in general, cameras of modern cinema and TV operators work on this principle.

[hrych]

Quote: DEZINTO

This is the same from the "Aliens" idea. There was such a machine gun.

Well, there they all ended badly, like it didn’t help

[Dezinto]

there they all ended badly, like it didn’t help

Well, what can I do ... they like to climb into an unknown horror, grab a tundra there, ... and urgently evacuate ....

Nothing will help them, at first a bunch of pathos, advertising to heaven, and at the exit a mountain of useless .... him ...

You can recall Vietnam, but from the new you can recall Iraq and Afghanistan, where they just buried in the ground behind 5-meter fences ....

[hrych]

The film is very instructive and with a sense, not for nothing unsurpassed classics

[Dezinto]

The film is very instructive and with a sense, not for nothing unsurpassed classics

This is without a doubt!

And I redrawn this car at school a hundred times))))



but in fact it is an airfield tractor! such news ...

[sabakina]

Khrych, as far as I remember, there the cat survived. And a woman. Doesn’t resemble anything?

[Dezinto]

there the cat survived. And a woman.

Well, that's nice. Both the cat and the woman are alive, good. Happy End, so to speak. The most important thing was saved.

I wanted to see the film, really one of the last high-quality space horror films.

[bouncyhunter]

This is in "Alien" survived Lieutenant Ripley and the cat Jones. And in “Aliens” the same Lieutenant Ripley, Corporal Hicks, a girl with the nickname “Tadpole” and half of the android named Bishop survived.

[sabakina]

Pasha, wasn’t that weapon in “Alien”? ... I'm getting old brother, getting old ... But the movie is cool!

[bouncyhunter]

Quote: sabakina

so in the "Alien" this weapon was not?

Did not have . I have in my collection the entire anthology of "Alien" collected.

[hrych]

Four red cats acted in the role of Johnsy Sigourney got allergies and was afraid of cats. And it was easier to replace her than cats, she was not then a megastar It turned out that she was allergic to glycerin, which she portrayed sweat So that these Jonesy could put an end to the wonderful actress

[hrych]

Quote: sabakina

there the cat survived

This is in Alien, kotyara Johnsy survived. In Aliens, the Bishop droid, though it is half, Ripley, the girl Newt and one commando, burned with acid. True stranger got to everyone, but in the next film.

[sabakina]

Grunt, began to forget. Pasha writes the 1986 film of the shaggy year. Then they knew how to make horror movies. Hollywood, in my opinion, is not the same. Even Independence Day 2 could not be made at the level of the first film. And we still haim our cinema ... There were no computers, there were high-quality films. Computers appeared ..... Why think? On the computer, draw everything ....

[Dezinto]

In - in and I about the same. Then, we worked on each detail with our hands and “created” it from the heart. And now a green sheet on the wall and on the road, draw whatever you want .....



It seems like an idea is good, innovative, but it looks somehow fake ...

[bouncyhunter]

That's right, the 1986 movie. It took just over three decades to make science fiction come true.

[sabakina]

Pasha, see my post on top of yours.

[Incvizitor]

And how "Something" was removed right in 1982 and the "Virus" 1999 that was necessary.

[loki565]

Yes it is))) only Cameron came up with a much better idea, there the machine gunners had an aiming device on their eyes and they did not have to raise their weapons to their faces to aim. All the same, Cameron is a very smart man)))

[Nikolai Grek]

Quote: DEZINTO

But in general, cameras of modern cinema and TV operators work on this principle.

it’s one thing to hang out with a camera and shoot a movie ... another thing is to go to the enemy with such a canoe !!!

[Dezinto]

it's one thing to hang out with a camera

clear stump
I talked about the principle of the mechanism ....

[Simple]

Quote: DEZINTO

I talked about the principle of the mechanism ....

All the same, the camera and the machine gun in different ways tackle this kinematics.

By the way, I don’t remember this frame, they probably showed it without me.

[vadimtt]

There was such a frame. There, behind it, one of the pipes is not a pipe at all, but the head of someone else's. He will begin to crawl out, and Sigourney will back off and climb into the spacesuit, then he will throw the stranger overboard.
For an American, Sigourney is very pretty, with a twist, it’s a pity, time doesn’t spare anyone, a placard is a placard.

[AshiSolo]

While I read all this and looked at the screenshot, I forgot what the article was about

[Simple]

If I were in the place of a "stranger" - she would not have time to climb somewhere there.

[artifact]

it’s of course not bad, only if the fighter is bulletproof, goes like that to his full height and watered from a kulamet in all directions.

[ANCIENT]

Then two more artificial legs are needed to increase the stability! !!

[sabakina]

There was an article about iron legs that week.

[poquello]

Quote: ANCIENT

Then two more artificial legs are needed to increase the stability! !!

tail is the main thing!

[sabakina]

poquello Hmm, you say tail ... Then Godzilla will succeed.

[beeper]

Quote: poquello

Quote: ANCIENT

Then two more artificial legs are needed to increase the stability! !!

tail is the main thing!

I think that over the “third leg”, it’s the “tail (like a kangaroo, stabilizes jumping),” work is also underway, but has not yet been shown to the public.

[poquello]

Quote: pishchak

I think that over the “third leg”, it’s the “tail (like a kangaroo, stabilizes jumping),” work is also underway, but has not yet been shown to the public.

according to the demonstrated wretchedness, it can be assumed that they simply did not think of the shoulder-belt at the back to the ground and fixing the stand "lower-around"

[tracer]

I'm afraid to even imagine where he will be and how to look.

[polpot]

I recall the inspector Juve from Fantomas with a mechanical arm, one question is how much this product will cost the US budget if they take it expensive, we don’t feel sorry for their money.

[Phil77]

Quote: polpot

I recall the inspector Juve from Fantomas with a mechanical arm, one question is how much this product will cost the US budget if they take it expensive, we don’t feel sorry for their money.

Exactly !!! Here they spend their money on such nonsense. Therefore, probably the Pentagon’s budget is simply astronomical !?

[rruvim]

DAPRA should give p-ss another third eye ... Exactly between two ...

[Blackmokona]

It has long been issued, and even the fourth add

[tracer]

This is a female! Surely a female!

[Reserve buildbat]

If they have all the soldiers like that, then it’s completely a disaster. For them. This monster in glasses clearly weighs more than a centner, and his muscles atrophied. There are only bones and fat.

[Yak28]

And how with this hand you can quickly move around, get into equipment, narrow trenches, trenches, sit on your knees and so on, it seems to me even for a physically trained soldier, this hand will create inconvenience.

[ANCIENT]

It is from such nonsense that the budget of the US Department of Defense consists! !! With similar developments, they will not have a trillion.

[beeper]

This is good, comrade ANCIENT, may the States spend so much better than for something sensible! It’s only a pity that they will print dollars for themselves,

[san4es]

... Under the cover ... Table lamp adapted

As Zac Wingard, mechanical engineer for weapons and materials research at the ARL, explained, “We are exploring a new form of interaction between a serviceman and a weapon.” According to him, during these studies it is planned to find out how long it is possible to improve the ballistic capabilities of weapons without increasing the load on the fighter.
,

[beeper]

Comrade Sanchez, thank you very much for the comprehensive infographic !!!
With sincere respect for you and your mega-labor

[san4es]

You're welcome.

your mega-hard work

... Alright mega.

[friend of animals]

You can then attach a hand with a saddle to the ass to make it more convenient to stand.

[Incvizitor]

Something was remembered.

[Denimax]

For ATGMs just when it takes a long time to keep an eye on the target.

[voyaka uh]

For a machine gunner it will be useful. For the shooter - too much.

[Simple]

I do not think.

The little legs will have to keep all this goofy when shooting.

To lean machine-gun bipods on anything solid (preferably not on oneself) is another matter.

[Incvizitor]

Well, you probably have to stand at full height and this is fraught, I think it’s safer and more convenient to put on the bipod, although it can ...

[voyaka uh]

I went with a MAG machine gun (it’s hard to run with it). It was forbidden to shoot from our hands, and physically it is very difficult, not for me. They only shot from the bipod. But there is a problem:
low, poor visibility, poor visibility. And from the knees, do not hold in your hands.
Have you seen the pictures how machine gunners fired in the Wehrmacht? The machine gun was placed on the back or shoulders of the second number, which stood cancer. And it’s stable, and the height is just right: you see the enemy, and you don’t shine yourself. But this is also prohibited now.
Therefore, some kind of adaptation is needed.

[Simple]

I agree, I need it.
But to put everything in one basket (load the musculoskeletal system of the shooter right away with weight and recoil (moreover, not only backward but with a lift and a turn)) at least as a suspension system is now designed, it won’t work.
IMHO.

[Ros 56]

Killed, it would be better to attach a second head. No wonder it says: one head is good, and two is better.

[Vol4ara]

Bullshit :)

[Kerensky]

So they will not reach the weapon belt soon. And to create with it a system of "shooter - weapon" .... No budget is enough!

[beeper]

Comrade Kerensky, you are commenting today made my day, where all my accumulated gloom has subsided!
Sincerely

[Second major]

Where's the sword belt? Huh?

[faterdom]

He will be able to salute with this hand when his hands are occupied with cola and chips. But on the battlefield I wouldn’t climb with such a shnyag, except there you have to be able to hold a machine gun and quickly fall, you have a hand ...

[Sergey ippon]

here is debi (fools) instead of developing stamina and reflexes ..
two under the arm, one per bump

[beeper]

It seems that the soldier has the “third hand”, that the hare has the “third leg” ?!
It seemed to me alone that this "feature" to the soldier (this is not the same funny storyteller-laboratory assistant, is he experiencing so ineptly on himself?) Really interfere? He can barely control the Colt M4, holds it with all three hands, and with a machine gun, in general, he barely throws up and did not even lie down with him ?! And also an additional one and a half (the weight of the rag case was taken into account unless, but the case gets wet, is that all two kilos ?! ) to pull a kilogram on yourself?
IMHO. With this "stray" the soldier has even less chance of survival in battle and campaign than without it!

[flicker]

Well, yes, not bad - the main thing is now that if one “Marine” bangs, then the second will be able to take his hand and he will already have 4 hands, and with 4 hands he will be able to shoot with two machine guns and replace the dead ranger.
Hmm, for these geldings you need an eye and an eye.

[Catfish]

For the "purity" of the experiment, this tester would need to release the weapon from his hands. I wonder what part of the body and which part of the weapon he would have kicked by inertia. Especially a machine gun.

[Disorder]

But who will allow him to stand so full-length so that his hands get tired?

[Tank hard]

Once again, it says that in the USA everything is in order with finances so far. For there is something to spend on, even if this “what” is a worthless trifle ...

[Shukshin]

"Third hand" showed high efficiency in a computer shooter to destroy zombies with armed bats and axes.)))

[Monetniy]

Extra pounds are useless, but if all this is not an exoskeleton, then you can run with a heavy machine gun like our CORD then it is a completely different matter.

[Olfred]

um, excuse me, but where is the 4th and 5th hand that would hold the hamburger in one. and in another cola?

[Dikson]

is this a continuation of the theme of the development of devices for shooting from around the corner? Why reinvent stupid bikes? On the same topic, just look at the professional operator’s unloading vests for steadicams, manipulators and suspensions .. for film production .. for heavy equipment .. with stabilization in three axes .. even the Chinese on batteries have this a long time ago .. - and where looks better than this incomprehensible dull eulogy .. Ha .. Yes, remember at least “Aliens-2”! there were two machine gunners in the cinema, with mechanical suspension of trunks ..)))

[K-50]

Pin-ups are not taught how to choose a position for a machine gunner. Otherwise, to understand why he is firing at full height, showing for all opponents a super-tempting target I can not understand.

[jurijsv]

And how to run through obstacles with this "organ"? I understand that after watching computer games they want to fight on the couch or office chair

[Bad thing]

And how with such "happiness" to quickly get in or leave the BMP (BTR). And sometimes you need to leave sooo briskly until the eggs are charred.

[gippernano]

Can you go to the girls with this?

[Zomanus]

The thing may be necessary. but not everywhere.
This is a pivot mount that is always with you.
It’s clear that you don’t run with this, you don’t climb,
but generally an interesting idea.

[novobranets]

From the great to the ridiculous, one step. Confused the place where this ... hmm ... arm grows from . Of course, it happens that hands grow out of w ..., well, on the other hand. But that would be so ...

[tank64rus]

I thought it was smarter at the Pentagon.