I'd rather people build these than bury land mines. Once you don't feel like guarding an area, you can just move the turret, but land mines are much harder to get rid of. People keep getting blown up to this day by decades-old mines.

What a collosal waste of technology.
Awesome advanced technology on such a primitive weapon.

I'm mean, isn't this 2011?
And we're still making things go boom, pushing a projectile out of the end of a barrel?

Where are the lightning bolts?
Where are the laser guns?

Show me a space based weapon that can strike down an enemy combatant with a lightning bolt from outerspace and I'll be seriously impressed.

I thought these automatic turrets already existed.
Too much playing Call of Duty on my part I suppose.

Originally posted by Screwed
What a collosal waste of technology.
Awesome advanced technology on such a primitive weapon.

This is a South Korean-produced autoturret. These things are pretty freaking deadly as is, especially if you can equip them with variable weapon systems (anti-personnel/AA/SAM/ATGM/etc). It can lock onto a human target 2.2km away? If it has the range, then this weapon can take out targets at a range that rivals the longest ever recorded sniper kills.

BUT

This is not a supergun. Personally, I really hate when stupid news agencies mislabel equipment like this with such tacky and misleading descriptions.

A supergun is basically a giant cannon that can shell a target many, many kms away. Specifically, they were designed to shell cities from railroads or across ocean channels, like in WWII (or like the superguns that China has aimed at Taiwan). Gerald Bull was also notable for modern supergun technology by starting project HARP and trying to develop the Iraqi superguns Big Babylon/Baby Babylon before Mossad put a bullet in his head. Though with the development of advanced guided bombs, superguns are for the most part, obsolete...

It immedietly reminded of Sentry Machine Guns from a tower defense game.. put them on a border or a bottleneck with a shoot at anything that moves program and those are gold! That's a warning to North Korea they won't be invaded