I love Fifth Element references!!

An improved round. Can even do some tracking and adjustment. OK.

Someone still has to use fieldcraft to get it to the right place, stay concealed, select the right target, conduct the engagement, and then egress without getting killed. Nah, thet'll still be a need for snipers.

This^^^

From what I gather, shooting is only 10% of a sniper's job and skills anyway. You need to become a recon GOD before becoming a true sniper. You need to have become an elite in the ranks of infantrymen before going to recon. You need to be at one with a radio, calling in strikes, enemy positions, be the eyes of the brigade, spotting enemy movements, identify ALL enemy equipment.

Besides, snipers from my regiment set the world record in combat, a good 800m FURTHER than the max range of this system! And they did it ten years ago. Saved some American soldier's lives too.

Frankly, this looks like something where the laser should be part of the spotting scope, so that the laser isn't pulled off target under recoil. Spotter effectively becomes the "shooter", while the shooter becomes the "recoil absorber"!

Edit: the most interesting part of this is that you could do moving target tracking, and shooting from a moving platform...imagine a Taliban running down the valley, hit by a guided bullet from a next-gen Reaper...ok not a Reaper as those would fly too high and too expensive to risk down low, but you get my drift.

Imagine this in BF3. It's bad enough as it is.

Oddly enough, the way to spoof the laser is to jump up and down while running in a zig-zag.

Bunny hopping training starts at 1500.