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10 years 5 months ago #40931 by OleCowboy
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Building a Better Bullet
Mark Thompson @MarkThompson_DC July 13, 2014
DARPA's Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) bullet may be precise, but its artist's rendering of the round is pretty vague.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Pentagon wants the capability for its snipers, making their goal of "one shot, one kill" even more likely

Accuracy trumps terror every time. For good or for ill, that is why Israeli missiles have killed at least 160 Palestinians, while Palestinian rockets have killed zero Israelis. While killing innocents as well as terrorists, the Israeli strikes are precise. So is its Iron Dome anti-missile system, which appears to be doing a pretty good job destroying Palestinian rockets headed for Israeli population centers. Meanwhile, the Palestinians are left to launch unguided rockets, hoping to get lucky and kill Israelis.

Along the same lines, imagine if you could transform a dumb bullet into a guided missile?

That’s what the Pentagon did earlier this year, successfully firing .50-caliber bullets that steered themselves in mid-flight. It has just released a video trumpeting the tip-top targeting of its Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program.

time.com/2979962/pentagon-selfguided-bul...ative-sniper-weapon/
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10 years 5 months ago #40934 by NightForce
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Ain't technology wonderful.....unless you're on the receiving end in this case..... :laugh:

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10 years 5 months ago #40949 by Libertarian623
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Sorry posted a duplicate. Cool stuff.

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10 years 5 months ago #40950 by Siscowet
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Really guidance technology would not be that difficult. They merely need to distill the essence of whatever it is that causes my wife to home in on a sale from incredible distances. They get that and half the work is done.

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