When I first heard about rifles that shoot around corners, I envisioned a gun barrel bent 90 degrees. An unlikely and nearly impossible scenario, of course, but I saw a lot of cartoons as a child. The reality is far more high tech and interesting. Modern troops use thermal scopes at the end of their gun barrels. The scopes send a signal to a small display attached to a soldier’s helmet. That means a soldier can blindly position a weapon around the corner and then aim using the monitor. And since the scope uses thermal sensors, dark, fog, and dust aren’t barriers to shooting straight either.
Who designs this stuff?
Guys like Tom Premosch, a senior mechanical engineer. He says the whole thing–sensors, cabling, displays– is done with Creo design software. Learn more about how Creo unlocks innovation for Premosch and his team in this brief interview from a recent PlanetPTC gathering:
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