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Whoa! This is just mind (and bullet) bending.
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So, with the right bullets/gun, anyone can be a killer sniper.
Yea, this can't go wrong can it?
That's some impressive technology, although all of the linked articles were pretty sparse. Is it self-guided, i.e. optical/IR tracking? Or is it laser-guided, designated by the shooter? Or does the rifle track the trajectory of the bullet and send out control signals?
And then the bullet has to modify its trajectory while spinning at nearly 150,000 RPM (Is my math right?3000 fps, 15" for the twist which is about 1 twist for 1.25 feet, that's 2400 rps, times 60 is 144k RPM)
So, with the right bullets/gun, anyone can be a killer sniper.
Yea, this can't go wrong can it?
Are you sure this is a rifled system, it could be smooth bore.
Anyone being anyone who can get their hands on such weaponry. I imagine they're not going to be selling this weapon system at Walmart.
On the flip-side, why would we need to bother to train people how to shoot properly anymore...Either way this has the potential to be very bad.
Anyone being anyone who can get their hands on such weaponry. I imagine they're not going to be selling this weapon system at Walmart.
On the flip-side, why would we need to bother to train people how to shoot properly anymore...Either way this has the potential to be very bad.
The scenario is simple. Somewhere along the line someone will decide it's smart to give something like this to some untrained goat herder cause he is fighting someone we really don't like. Then it's too late to just take it back unless we build in a way to remotely disable it.
While not rotating nearly as fast...JDAMs are guided while rotating during freefall.
Teledyne Technologies, Inc., founded in 1960
The Terminator, released 1984
So, with the right bullets/gun, anyone can be a killer sniper.
Yea, this can't go wrong can it?
It will be mil only. Not saying it can't find its way in to the wrong hands, but it won't be sold at your local walmart.
I liked the simpler solution where you lock in a target on your scope, and just hold the trigger down when aiming at it. When perfectly aligned (and it adjusts for range/altitude/windspeed/direction etc), it fires on its own.
Hard to tell in the video what we're looking at because their is nothing to scale against the target or the projectile ... so I find this hard to believe. "Bullets" don't home in on their target. The video could be some blurry animation someone put together. Now, if DARPA has managed to find someone who has invented small guided missiles, that's a different story.
On the flip-side, why would we need to bother to train people how to shoot properly anymore...Either way this has the potential to be very bad.
Grahamkracka, I have been doing some more digging and although I have found nothing truely specific one way or the other, the text does sound more like this technology is a combination of targeting/guidance system and special ammunition designed for standard .50 Cal Sniper grade rifles.
DARPA has been releasing public info on this for a few years, 2011 or something are that time... Your right these are geared for .50 cal sniping rifles like the Barrett M82 / M107.
I think the concept for the bullet is to allow the shooter an advantage of shooting in un favorable weather conditions & to help them with concealment for the shooter not giving away the location of the sniping team.
this is what bullet is suppose to look like.
http://www.darpa.mil/uploadedImages/Content/Our_Work/TTO/Programs/Exacto/exacto projectile_full.jpg
So, with the right bullets/gun, anyone can be a killer sniper.
Yea, this can't go wrong can it?
Hard to tell in the video what we're looking at because their is nothing to scale against the target or the projectile ... so I find this hard to believe. "Bullets" don't home in on their target. The video could be some blurry animation someone put together. Now, if DARPA has managed to find someone who has invented small guided missiles, that's a different story.