Detection of Muzzle Blast and Flash
Systems to detect muzzle blast with microphones and triangulate the location where the shots were fired are commercially available, and have been installed in many high crime areas of large cities. These gunshot location systems provide a fairly precise location of the source of a shot fired outdoors—99% to within 33 feet (10m) or better—and can provide it to police within seconds of the shot being fired.
Muzzle flashes create distinct signatures that can be located using infrared imaging technology. In fact, technology is being developed to detect enemy muzzle flashes before the projectile reaches its target.
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“Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility,
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger.
Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We cannot know how much we learn
From those who never will return,
Until a flash of unforeseen
Remembrance falls on what has been.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)