Shooter-detection 'Boomerangs' helping in Iraq: "A new acoustic shooter-detection system called 'Boomerang' detects incoming gunfire in Iraq and alerts Soldiers to the shooter's location, allowing them to immediately return fire.
'It's an anti-sniper detection system,' said Pierre Jackson, an installer of Boomerang systems for the firm D3M.
'Basically, if someone is firing at you, it picks up exactly where they're firing from,' he said.
When a Soldier is on patrol, the device is passive. It signals Soldiers with an audible and a visual warning if it detects an incoming, supersonic round.
It relays the direction, distance, and azimuth to the shooter.
Training only takes a half-hour."
