No-snipe (tm) from Coproco Enterprises is a convenient shoulder-mounted windage indicator, consisting of streamers blown in random directions by hat-mounted, solar-powered fans.
Snipers will be unable to compensate for the apparently variable wind conditions, and will simply give up and return to their mountain-top retreats.
-- coprocephalous, Feb 04 2009

Snipe http://www.birding....ds/common_snipe.jpg
[wagster, Feb 04 2009]

No-snipe http://www.campmack...es/River%20Bank.jpg
[wagster, Feb 04 2009]

The Jackal would get hold of the randomization algorithm, and have a HUD that subtracts the synthetic motion, leaving only the true wind effects.
-- loonquawl, Feb 04 2009


Adopting an unusual gait might also assist in thwarting snipers, as developed by those hard-working men at the ministry.
-- zen_tom, Feb 04 2009


1. I shoot you at night (IR sight, natch), when the solar-powered fans conk out.

2. When that fails, I bring in the Acme Shoulder-Launched Fan-Seeking missile. This works by analysing the distinctive vortices created by solar powered fans blowing in different directions from the same hat. Actually, it probably doesn't. Visual pattern-recognition of the funny hat might be a better bet.
-- pertinax, Feb 04 2009


//I shoot you at night (IR sight//
But the heat of the fan motors would confuse your IR sight.
-- coprocephalous, Feb 04 2009


But they're solar powered - so how do they do anything hot at night?
-- pertinax, Feb 04 2009


From the retained heat when they warmed during the day.
-- coprocephalous, Feb 04 2009


So, a fan that's been powered off for, say, an hour, would be hotter than your head? (Sorry, that somehow sounds more personally insulting than it's meant to).
-- pertinax, Feb 04 2009


You could always run them at night from a sterling engine driven by your head's warmth.
-- wagster, Feb 04 2009


You could just get an burlap bag and hold it close to the ground and yell Heeeeeere snipe, snipe, snipe! Sniiiiiiipe! Snipe, snipe, snipe!
-- nomocrow, Feb 04 2009



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