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The Firefly reconnaissance rifle-mounted ballistic camera

Firefly ballistic camera

The Firefly solves that nagging battlefield problem of needing a quick look over the next hill, by deploying a disposable ballistic camera from a standard-issue, rifled-mounted grenade launcher. There's no special training required; soldiers just fire off the grenade-sized reconaissance device and wait about 8 seconds for the photos to come back to a carried pocket computer. Of course, you won't exactly be able to pick one of these things up at Target or anything, but maybe some toy company will see the value in commercializing a safe, nerfball-mounted ballistic camera for the kiddies. We'd so be there.