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Starchase
« on: October 28, 2013, 03:02:03 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXCi_na80wQ

Shoots a sticky GPS device to a car that is being pursued.


http://www.starchase.com/
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Re: Starchase
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2013, 04:34:47 PM »
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A compressed-air launcher, mounted behind the grille of a police cruiser, uses a laser to target the fleeing vehicle. It discharges a projectile/tag containing the GPS module.


Great technology until the first time the pursuee makes a hard turn just as the cop launches it and spears some innocent passerby square in the spandex stretch pants.

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« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2013, 05:49:54 PM »
Why not just use a missile and blow the car to pieces, instead?  :police:

You know - for officer safety and all ...  :P
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Re: Starchase
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2013, 06:19:47 PM »
sticky gps...... =(.......sticky bomb......... =)
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Re: Starchase
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2013, 06:52:45 PM »
Watch the episode of Mythbusters in which they install both a fixed and a flex-mounted paintball marker on the hood of a cruiser.  Then ask yourself if a single shot GPS shooter is practical.

(Spoiler: it isn't)
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Re: Starchase
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2013, 08:32:47 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on October 28, 2013, 05:49:54 PM
Why not just use a missile and blow the car to pieces, instead?  :police:

You know - for officer safety and all ...  :P
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Re: Starchase
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2013, 08:33:54 AM »
Quote from: Devonai on October 28, 2013, 06:52:45 PM
Watch the episode of Mythbusters in which they install both a fixed and a flex-mounted paintball marker on the hood of a cruiser.  Then ask yourself if a single shot GPS shooter is practical.

(Spoiler: it isn't)
It wasn't so bad when it mounted on the car and the driver used the car to aim.

Just hang out the window and shoot at them like in the movies.
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Re: Starchase
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2013, 08:55:07 AM »
I suspect the intent is more for shooting the tracker during the long straight away chases like we actually see from news choppers, rather than the Hollywood "Bullet" fantasy chase, or the Mythbusters scenario where they had access to an abandoned military base housing complex with twisty residential streets.

Also, the unit has a high visibility green tracking laser so you know when you're on the suspect cars bumper etc.
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