Self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away
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Wanted-style assassins incoming
Reminds me of the kickass weapon from The Fifth Element.
[video=youtube;9pxjnl1yuXk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pxjnl1yuXk[/video]
Also, more sauce:
[quote]In order for a finned design to work, of course, the engineers had to dispense with some fundamentals of modern firearm design, like the rifled barrel that puts spin on conventional bullets. That spin, like a spiraling football, stabilizes conventional rounds and helps them to fly straight. The smart rounds eschew rifling and spin for the active guidance provided by the fins, and in doing so computer simulations suggest they could narrow the average margin of error on a half-mile shot from nearly 10 yards down to just 8 inches.
Meaning a “miss” on a target of any decent size--let’s say for the sake of the argument, a target the size of a grown man’s torso--would still likely result in a “hit” of some degree. The video below doesn’t go very far by way of technical explanation, but you can see the round exit the muzzle and deploy its self-guiding fins in super slow-mo.[/quote]
[url=http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/video-new-smart-bullet-deploys-fins-and-guides-itself-laser-designated-target]PopSci[/url]
Edit:
Nevermind, it's already covered by the main article pretty much.
aim-god dammit
This is a wonderful and great thing.
Truly earth is better for this invention, the creators should feel proud of themselves.
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;34464450]This is a wonderful and great thing.
Truly earth is better for this invention, the creators should feel proud of themselves.[/QUOTE]
Who gives a shit about earth, this shit is fucking awesome and I don't care that it's a bullet made for more efficient killing, still awesome.
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;34463352]I'm just thinking of the magic bullet and JFK's assassination right now.[/QUOTE]
I wish I knew why people called it the magic bullet
There was a TV Show that documented the thing, and recreated the shot as best they could. Same elevations, distances, weapon, all that. Anatomically correct ballistic dummies with actual bones, and when they fired the shot, it did the EXACT same thing, it even hit the ballistics gel set up as the guy's thigh, in the same spot as the actual bullet
Bullets do weird shit once they hit bone. Ever see Hell and Back Again? About the Marine who was wounded? He got shot in the hip with an AK, and it some how turned 90 degrees and came out of his knee
[QUOTE=Dwarfy77;34463392]Someone hook these fuckers up to rockets, Half Life style of course, with the laser attached to the weapon.[/QUOTE]
They exist for like 15 years already
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;34464810]Actually they've existed roughly since WW2 when the Germans began work on wire guided Anti-Ship/Anti-Aircraft weapons.[/QUOTE]
Make that 50+ years ago
It was only a matter of time on this one.
We can already hit targets well beyond a mile away with bullets that retain far more kinetic energy than that, though so this inst really anything very useful for long distance shooting. The energy it wastes guiding itself would probably be fairly spectacular and I imagine the bullet doesn't have great external ballistic properties to start with.
Call me up again when bullets can fly around obstacles and hit targets on the other side :v:
[QUOTE=DChapsfield;34464245][IMG]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.massively.com/media/2009/12/500x_untitled-9.jpg[/IMG] ?[/QUOTE]
more like:
[IMG]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090702114815/redfaction/images/5/52/RFG_enforcer.jpg[/IMG]
thats the enforcer from red faction guerrilla, which had homing bullets that had tracers like shown above.
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;34463861]Just for laughs he'd use this:
Flintlocks are as badass as it gets[/QUOTE]
Dude, matchlocks are far more badass.
The only problem I can see with this is that you have to keep the laser on target until you get a hit, leaving you exposed the entire time. It would good for sniper surgical strikes, but if it was a group after the first round you would be in trouble. Add in the fact that you can't have rifling really makes it awkward so you aren't able to just switch ammo but instead have to switch guns or barrels. The bullet size and I'm guessing makeup make it really good for soft targets especially hostage type situations, but I don't quite see the practicality in full fledged combat, especially when you need to penetrate cover.
[QUOTE=codemaster85;34464550]more like:
[IMG]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090702114815/redfaction/images/5/52/RFG_enforcer.jpg[/IMG]
thats the enforcer from red faction guerrilla, which had homing bullets that had tracers like shown above.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;bKuD_E95FNY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKuD_E95FNY[/video]
Yeah, that looks about right.
[QUOTE=J!NX;34463813]Use his grandfathers old bolt action. :v:
Bolt actions are fucking SEXY.
[thumb]http://www.rockislandauction.com/photos/1016/p_standard/THY85A-H-F2-L.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE]
These are not true soviet rifles
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Mosin_Nagant_series_of_rifles.jpg/479px-Mosin_Nagant_series_of_rifles.jpg[/img]
This is true soviet rifle, built to survive even Siberian winter. There is even rifle for every occasion.
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;34463861]Just for laughs he'd use this:
Flintlocks are as badass as it gets[/QUOTE]
Flintlocks are sexy as hell but I'd so much prefer a nice old coated wooden and steel bolt action
I think bolting it after every shot would be so badass.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;34464527]They exist for like 15 years already[/QUOTE]
Actually they've existed roughly since WW2 when the Germans began work on wire guided Anti-Ship/Anti-Aircraft weapons.
[QUOTE=Phaselancer;34464626]The only problem I can see with this is that you have to keep the laser on target until you get a hit, leaving you exposed the entire time. It would good for sniper surgical strikes, but if it was a group after the first round you would be in trouble. Add in the fact that you can't have rifling really makes it awkward so you aren't able to just switch ammo but instead have to switch guns or barrels. The bullet size and I'm guessing makeup make it really good for soft targets especially hostage type situations, but I don't quite see the practicality in full fledged combat, especially when you need to penetrate cover.[/QUOTE]
it would most likely be used with a specialized weapon, seeing as its far longer then standard ammunition, the weapon could also have a laser designator built into its sightings
[QUOTE=Phaselancer;34464626]The only problem I can see with this is that you have to keep the laser on target until you get a hit, leaving you exposed the entire time.[/QUOTE]
What, the entire 2.5 seconds it takes a bullet like this to travel a mile?
[QUOTE=Cone;34463646]In several years I can see a shitty action film about some dude who's really really good because he doesn't use that pussy-ass aimbot shit[/QUOTE]
The hostiles start wearing tin-foil armour, the advanced heat-seeking laser bullets can't detect them. It's up to old Slick, Quick Chuck McHipshooter to take out the terrorists and save the presidents daughter.
But how much does it cost to manufacture one single bullet?
hahahaha I re-read my earlier post and realized how dumb it sounds
I meant "worse" as in "worse" for the fairness of war.
Not that war is fair anyways.
[QUOTE=erazor;34464574]Dude, matchlocks are far more badass.[/QUOTE]
Wheel-locks are as badass as it gets
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;34464859]But how much does it cost to manufacture one single bullet?[/QUOTE]
IR laser seeker + power source + fins with actuators + tiny airframe = LOADSAMONEY
[QUOTE=TheTalon;34464520]I wish I knew why people called it the magic bullet
There was a TV Show that documented the thing, and recreated the shot as best they could. Same elevations, distances, weapon, all that. Anatomically correct ballistic dummies with actual bones, and when they fired the shot, it did the EXACT same thing, it even hit the ballistics gel set up as the guy's thigh, in the same spot as the actual bullet
Bullets do weird shit once they hit bone. Ever see Hell and Back Again? About the Marine who was wounded? He got shot in the hip with an AK, and it some how turned 90 degrees and came out of his knee[/QUOTE]
I saw a special disproving it, it was called the "magic bullet" because if the seats of the car were arranged like a normal car then the bullet would have had to have actually went in a zigzag to go through both guys, but the car was slightly different and it explained everything
Here's the special:
[video=youtube;2kEh3Kgwhk0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kEh3Kgwhk0[/video]
watch them add terrain avoidance to that thing, so it can hit you even after you've gone over that hill
from the photo it looks as if it can make some pretty sharp turns.
One step closer to
[t]http://0.tqn.com/d/movies/1/0/c/Y/R/wantedtheatricalposter.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;34464909]I saw a special disproving it, it was called the "magic bullet" because if the seats of the car were arranged like a normal car then the bullet would have had to have actually went in a zigzag to go through both guys, but the car was slightly different and it explained everything[/QUOTE]
yeah, the zigzag thing made me think of that, haha
[editline]30th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;34464949]One step closer to
[t]http://0.tqn.com/d/movies/1/0/c/Y/R/wantedtheatricalposter.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
they have steampunk guided bullets
[img]http://d2d04grx5ahzvh.cloudfront.net/000_WebRoundups/007_62_3dsMaxTuts/4.jpg[/img]
One step closer to baby skull seeking bullets, for when the baby skull gang starts raping our churches and burning our women.
[QUOTE=Omali;34465039]One step closer to baby skull seeking bullets, for when the baby skull gang starts raping our churches and burning our women.[/QUOTE]
WKUK
100 years or so in the future, mankind's standard infantryman wears armored exoskeleton and fully automatic rifle with homing bullets.
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