The U.S. Army uses a 500 meter rifle range for training soldiers for combat.The range has multiple pop-up targets that can be randomly sequenced to train the soldier to recognize, aim and accurately
shoot at the targets.The targets are positioned at various distances and angles
from the soldier.The U.S. Army needed a method for evaluating the rifling aiming
process to determine what makes a good shooter verses a poor shooter.Specifically
the Army wanted to trace the direction the rifle was pointed with respect to the target up to time of the shot. This information would later be analyzed to identify bad shooting habits. An important feature of the system
is that it needed to work with live fire weapons.
Solution:
QUEST developed a very light weight, rifle mounted weapon module that continuously measures the distance between the
target and the direction the rifle is pointed.This data is sent from the weapon
to a remote data store computer using a wireless data link where the aiming sequence is plotted in real-time.The targets are illuminated with either a laser designator or a source mounted near the target.The system is designed to resolve 0.5 inch at 200 meters.The figure at the left shows the weapon module mounted on an M‑16.
