[davmitchell77]

personally, i think this is just a new application of the MILES gear that we had in the suc. army had them too, of course. they were used with blanks, the vibration of the blank firing would transmit the laser beam onto target. they didn't fire reliably each time, or would go off every time you went to ground, "killing" whomever was next /in front of you, and generally inaccurate and unreliable.

hopefully, with progresses in technology and manufacturing, the performance of the system overall has improved substantially.