{"id":194150,"date":"2008-10-19T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/19\/israeli-defense-forces-developed-remote-controlled-sniper-rifle\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T13:17:00","slug":"israeli-defense-forces-developed-remote-controlled-sniper-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/19\/israeli-defense-forces-developed-remote-controlled-sniper-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Defense Forces Developed Remote Controlled Sniper Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img260.imageshack.us\/img260\/5954\/7110a291903d4245996dca8fx8.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>The system is called Tanin (Alligator) and it mounts a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A835b7d06-e3e0-428d-930b-9ea88e088c29\">.50 cal Barrett sniper rifle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This system is undoubtedly not cheap, but the risk of losing a rifle and mount is less than that of losing a sniper, who are highly trained and rare commodities.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if we will see this in use in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>My hunch is that it will be used often&#8230;it&#8217;s the middle east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The system is called Tanin (Alligator) and it mounts a .50 cal Barrett sniper rifle. This system is undoubtedly not cheap, but the risk of losing a rifle and mount is less than that of losing a sniper, who are highly trained and rare commodities. I wonder if we will see this in use in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,986,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}