ARQ
Precision rifle ballistics, weather and range planning
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Details
- External ID
- 1265827
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ARQ
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252795148758764
- Tags
- Android, YouTube
- Fetched at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
ARQ is a precision-rifle ballistics and range-planning companion from Black Ridge Precision. Build rifle and ammunition profiles, calculate firing solutions, use live-weather context, plan stages and keep essential field tools together for training and competition. Built for precision-rifle disciplines including PRS, NRL, ORPS and NRS, ARQ helps shooters prepare, calculate and execute with clear field-ready information.
Enrichment
- Niche
- environmental monitoring and personal safety
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ballistics and weather calculator for rifle shooters
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A standard field companion UI is easy to vibe code, but accurate precision rifle firing solutions rely on specialized numerical physics solvers for ballistic trajectories.
What it would actually take: The app requires implementing modified point-mass or 6-DOF ballistic equations incorporating aerodynamic drag models (G1/G7 drag functions or custom Doppler radar curves), Coriolis and Eötvös effects, and aerodynamic jump. The hard part is numerical stability and precision when solving differential equations for trajectory integration in real-time alongside external Bluetooth weather meter integrations (e.g., Kestrel). This demands applied physics and external ballistics domain knowledge.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #4 of 20 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
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