ROFLMAO Ok that’s pure genius.
It’s not simply overrated, most of its actual uses are detrimental. No ifs, no buts.
But plenty butts. Unnaturally perfect butts.
One for @Troll
Yep, yep, right.This is exactly how it goes…
They rolled the body scanners out around the time I got my first hip replacement at the ripe age of 32. I got selected for secondary screening off a body scanner alert and a gentleman I estimated as being approximately 85 years of age was doing the search.
Having at that point been a field training officer, and then out at the training academy for 2 years, I was pretty used to both instructing proper frisks and searches and being the training dummy for said practice. So TSO Father Time proceeds to do, what to me, was the most inefficient and incomplete frisk I’ve ever had done on me.
For whatever reason, the fact this wasn’t my agency, and I was in fact trying to get through security didn’t enter my brain. I actually started to say the phrase “Do it again, that was horrible.” I caught myself after I only got out the words “do it again.”
I think the TSO’s hearing aide must have been off, or he wasn’t wearing any as he just waved me out of the screening area.
Like you I was trained to conduct a proper frisk search (as part of tactical questioning training).
There is no way I would do it at a foreign airport, but one time when flying domestic I was taken aside for a patdown/frisk because their wand wasn’t working and despite removing shoes, belt and totally emptying my pockets, etc. I was still setting off the metal detector. All I can think of is that the rivets in my jeans were setting it off.
This guy was doing a pretty good job working his way up one leg. Until he got to my groin and I said (in the campest voice I could muster) ‘ooh, you can keep doing that sweetie’. He couldn’t get his hands away from me fast enough and I was waved through.
When you absolutely, positively HAVE to completely terrify someone but have no chance of hitting them 
Obviously the movie props were firing blanks, and in-universe it’s meant to have all sorts of motors and gyro stabilisation, but the actors in the movie stood more square/face-on when firing - I wonder if that would help with the recoil control?
While crying at what they have done to a M53 (MG42) and Thompson, that is really cool.
If they had actually integrated a modern thermal sight (e.g. oneleaf.ai Mars mini 640x512(60Hz) Micro Thermal Imaging Scope for Pis – Magnum Sports) into that eyepiece I would be able to forgive the M53 ‘mods’.
iirc the mount that they used for the ‘Smartgun’ in the movies was a steadicam rig?
With the small cameras we have now that would be easy to feed it to the headset
It would probably help with the weight distribution, and absorb some of the recoil
There is a gentleman who is building a smart gun with actual tracking. IIRC he’s using the AR as the basis, with the plan being a belt fed design. If I can find the video again I’ll add, it was pretty impressive.