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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Famous quotes containing the words muzzle, blast and/or flash:
“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)
“Another hand thy sword shall wield,
Another hand the standard wave,
Till from the trumpet’s mouth is pealed
The blast of triumph o’er thy grave.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hideyhole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luck Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there’s a message there, I don’t think I want to hear it.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)