Chapter 521: Super Shooting Range
One woman asked: "What if there were casualties if real weapons were used?"
"I can only say that this situation will never happen, and the reason... I believe you will understand it in a while. So, if anyone else needs my answer, you can ask it now, or I will practice it later. If you have anything to answer during the process, you can tell me and I will answer it for you. And if there is anything that needs explanation, I will explain it to you as soon as it appears."
After waiting for a few seconds and seeing that no one asked any more questions, the staff member motioned to the person operating the monitor to switch the outside screen to the main screen, then retreated to a corner of the podium and sat down, waiting for someone to come and answer questions at any time.
After the above preparations are completed, we are almost ready here.
Although there are many maps in this game venue, the area we are currently in is not a standard game map, but the most ordinary shooting range. If there is anything special, it may be that the equipment is slightly better.
Although this shooting range is roughly the same as a general training shooting range, there are some differences in some places. First of all, as a gaming place for rich guys who have so much money that they don’t know how to spend it, the equipment and decoration here are very exaggerated. Ordinary shooting ranges usually have cement walls and are not painted at all. At most, a carpet or wooden floor on the shooting platform would be considered luxurious. However, this shooting range is very different.
The floor here is made of synthetic plastic. It feels like there is a little bit of elasticity when you step on it, but it's very weak. This material is not mainly intended to improve the comfort of the ground. Its main functions are actually only three points: flame retardant, sound-absorbing, and anti-ricochet.
Let's be honest, guns may misfire during loading and inspection, and if the walls and floors are made of hard cement. Powerful firearms are not a problem because the bullets will penetrate the cement. But if it is a pistol, the bullet is not powerful enough to penetrate high-grade cement, so the bullet will rebound, thereby increasing the possibility of injuring someone. Therefore, the firearms maintenance room of the general police station will be laid with wooden floors and dado boards. Because soft materials can prevent ricochet and greatly reduce the kinetic energy of bullets.
Needless to say, the rest of the sound absorption and flame retardancy. One is for noise reduction and the other is fireproof. After all, modern thermal weapons are strictly related to flames. It is normal to cause fires, so flame retardancy is a must.
In addition to the floor material, the walls here are specially designed. There is a layer of material on the outside of the wall itself that is the same as the floor, but it is not as thick as the layer on the ground. The layer of synthetic rubber beneath our feet is about five centimeters thick, while the layer on the walls is only one centimeter. but. Although the synthetic rubber material on the wall is very thin, it is not the only thing on the wall. There is actually a frame supported by a layer of hard plastic on this wall, and the frame is also covered with a layer of plastic board. These plastic boards are all square boards with a side length of half a meter and a thickness of about one centimeter. There are many round holes as big as a dollar coin evenly distributed on these plastic plates. This structure is actually a structure used to absorb sound waves. The reflectivity of sound waves in such materials is very low. Therefore, although this is an underground confined space, the echo of gunshots will not be very loud, because this kind of board can greatly absorb reflected sound waves. In addition, this layer of plastic board is installed on a hard plastic support frame. There is still a gap of about two centimeters between it and the wall, so problems such as ricochet can be further reduced. As for the problem of being accidentally damaged by a bullet. Anyway, the partitions are piece by piece, just remove the broken one and replace it.
In fact, in addition to the walls and floors, even the ceiling above us has the same design as the walls, and of course there are many lights on it. And because the lighting design is very good, it leaves no shadows at all, simulating the effect of natural light sources as much as possible.
In addition to the surrounding wall material, another feature of this place is that it is larger than the average shooting training range. The width is okay, but the length is exaggerated. The maximum distance can reach 500 meters. Without a sniper rifle at such a distance, most individual weapons would have exceeded their effective range. Because most rifles, although powerful at this distance, have almost no accuracy at all. Sharpshooters can barely control the trajectory, but ordinary soldiers probably can only rely on their character.
Of course, although the maximum span of this place is five hundred meters, not all targets are actually that far away. In fact, the distance of the target can be controlled at will, and the target drone here is the most awesome equipment in this place.
Before talking about target drones, let’s first talk about the special features of this shooting range’s structure. Generally speaking, shooting ranges are actually single-story, that is, the targets and shooters are on the same level, but this is not entirely the case here.
Although the shooting preparation area here only has a height difference of four meters, there is a space with a height of twenty meters in front of the preparation area.
This twenty-meter area is actually divided according to the height of five floors. The middle floor is as high as the shooting preparation area here, and there is an eight-meter drop below it. If you stand at the target and look at the shooting platform, you will feel that the shooting platform is like windows opened in the middle of a cliff, and the shooting platform is not the kind that you usually see where you can only stand and shoot. structure, but allows for multiple shooting positions. Of course, in order to accommodate various shooting postures, the shooting platform here is designed to be a lifting structure.
When the shooting stand is fully raised, it is as high as a regular table. You can place magazines and other items on it and then stand and shoot. And if you want to shoot from a kneeling position or lying on the ground, you can adjust the shooting stand in front to the appropriate height. As for why the shooting platform is not placed on the side and the front is free, this is purely for safety reasons. After all, this shooting range is not only one floor, but the shooting area in front has a drop of eight meters. In order to prevent someone from falling from the front and getting injured, the shooting platform needs to act as a safety guardrail here.
The reason why the target area is set up as a space with a height difference of twenty meters is actually to simulate urban warfare. Because in the city, enemies may shoot at you from the windows upstairs, so if there is only one floor, it is impossible to complete the training of enemies appearing in multiple windows at the same time in a high-rise building. In addition, there is another situation where the shooter may stand upstairs and shoot downwards, which also requires a height difference. The best design of this shooting range is that the front target area has a 20-meter drop. The shooting preparation area is completely a lifting platform. Under normal circumstances, the shooting preparation area stays on the middle floor, so that horizontal shooting can be completed on the upper and lower floors and in the middle. When the preparation area drops to the bottom, the shooting range in front becomes five stories high, and if the preparation area When the area rises to the top, the shooting range in front becomes a shooting area with a downward angle five floors down.
The above are just the structural facilities in the design area, and the target drones here are even more exaggerated.
Most shooting ranges actually use target paper. That is, a piece of cardboard with a ring as the center, which is then hung on a cableway and slid to the required distance, and then it can be shot. Some more advanced shooting ranges use pop-up target drones with robotic arms. This kind of target will pop up from multiple locations and then train reaction capabilities. Some can also move on a lateral track, thus becoming a moving target. .
but. Compared with the target drones here, the previous ones were all scum. The target drones here turned out to be mobile devices that appeared in pairs. One was magnetically attached to the ceiling of the target area, and the other was on the ground below. The two mobile devices are controlled by computers and are always in a vertical line. And they each have two fiberglass filaments. Because this is fiberglass, it is difficult to see from a distance of two meters, almost as if it is invisible. The upper and lower devices each have two wires, one of which hangs down. One is upward, connected to a piece of target paper or a 3D model target of the Xingtai group of humanoid puzzle animals. After four glass wires pulled the target. Because both the upper and lower devices have reels for retracting and unwinding the wire, the target can be freely moved up and down within the 20-meter drop space by retracting and retracting the wire from the two devices. In addition, because of the two moving devices, They are all moved on wheels and do not need to follow track restrictions. Therefore, in fact, this target can move at any height and position within this area with a horizontal width of 80 meters, a vertical length of 500 meters, and a height difference of 20 meters, and the speed is super fast.
This kind of device appears in pairs and can cross each other and move horizontally and vertically. Even if hundreds of targets are running around on the field at the same time, there will be no entanglement. It can completely simulate the scene of a large group of enemies charging head-on. . At the same time, there is actually laser projection equipment in this venue. By relying on projection to project the optical model on a special reflective target board, the effect of a real person can be simulated. Although it can be seen at a glance that it is fake, it is very close to reality. .
We are here today to face this kind of shooting range, and the opponent's setting is the most difficult.
After we were in place at the shooting range, the commentator in the observation room began to explain some of the difficulty settings of the shooting range, and then said: "When using the highest setting, even the best marksman in the army will not have a hit rate of more than 100%. One is basically completely uncontrollable, and most of the one percent hits are accidental. Therefore, the highest difficulty is not the difficulty used by normal people at all, it is just the ultimate state that the equipment can reach, and Not for shooting at people.
At the highest level of difficulty, the mobile device that controls the standard version may move at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, and because the mobile device itself weighs very little and is very powerful, its steering and acceleration performance are beyond that of humans today. Any vehicle used, after all, real vehicles need to carry items or people, and it is impossible to just have a simple power system and wheels, so the thrust-to-weight ratio varies greatly.
In addition, because the targets can actually move down the mountain, the lateral speed plus the up and down displacement, the ultimate speed of these targets is actually more than 200 kilometers per hour. It is difficult for normal people to hit such high-speed movements, and they are constantly moving. The amplitude of a target that changes its state of motion. "
"So what is the best score among humans?" someone asked.
The commentator immediately said: "Professional snipers and various sharpshooters from the U.S. H2 Special Forces and Navy SEALs have been tested here before, and sports rifle shooting champions have also been tested here. So far they can adapt. The maximum speed is when the moving target is moving at a speed of less than 100 kilometers per hour, and the target movement variable is less than 3 G, and the movement change interval is not less than 5 seconds."
"So in this mode, what are the motion variables? What are the time intervals?" someone asked.
The commentator said: "The current mode is not actually used for training. As I said before, it completely releases the control of the device and allows the calculation to control the movement of the device in the form of random numbers. The only restriction on the device is It is its own mechanical performance limit. Therefore, in this mode, the moving speed of these targets can reach more than 200 kilometers per hour, their motion variables can change from the maximum G force to 16 G, and the motion state of The changing frequency will be interval-free, which means that these devices will not move in a straight line, they are changing at any time, either accelerating or decelerating, there is no uniform speed at all.”
"Then how can we fight?"
"This is the thing about those testers. Anyway, I don't know how to shoot. Oh, and I also want to remind everyone that what they need to shoot later is not the target directly exposed to the blank area, but there are obstacles. Things are added to it.”
"obstacle?"
"Yes. This shooting range has an obstacle design, and some special obstacles can be deployed to increase the difficulty." After the commentator finished speaking, he saw that some obstacles began to rise in the shooting range on the screen. The materials of these obstacles are different. Some are made of wood, some are metal, and some are made of cement. They are mainly made of these three materials, which correspond to: unable to penetrate, capable of being penetrated by multiple bullets, and capable of being penetrated. However, regardless of whether these obstacles can be penetrated, their ability to block the line of sight is the same.
When those obstacles were raised from the openings under the ground, the originally huge space in the venue was isolated into sections of space. In addition to the vertical obstacles, there were also horizontal obstacles. In this case, shooting objects It will be blocked frequently, and we not only need to observe and aim, but also calculate the time when the target appears behind the obstacle. This amount of calculation is impossible to complete by human standards.
As the shooting range was fully unfolded, the observation room fell into silence, because everyone found that we had already picked up the gun, and it was obvious that the shooting test was about to begin. (To be continued ~^~)