self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away

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This looks pretty cool.



ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet that could help war fighters. (Click here for a video showing the prototype’s flight.)
Sandia researchers Red Jones and Brian Kast and their colleagues have invented a dart-like, self-guided bullet for small-caliber, smooth-bore firearms that could hit laser-designated targets at distances of more than a mile (about 2,000 meters).


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A tiny light-emitting diode, or LED, attached to a self-guided bullet at Sandia National Laboratories shows a bright path during a nighttime field test that proved the battery and electronics could survive the bullet's launch.
 


I guess once you solve the problem of the electronics surviving the firing of the weapon then it's not that difficult to send it where you want it.
 
each bullet will probably cost thousands of dollars. so your probably better off just firing a hundred 50 cal rounds into the target anyway. Also I dunno how fast these bullets travel but I'm sure its probably pretty useless at short ranges since it wouldn't have enough time to actually alter its course before it hits a target. Another thing is if you are able to change the direction of the bullet mid flight im sure it will impact is velocity so you probably wouldn't get the same power as you would with a normal bullet.
 
erifdekciw said:
each bullet will probably cost thousands of dollars. so your probably better off just firing a hundred 50 cal rounds into the target anyway. Also I dunno how fast these bullets travel but I'm sure its probably pretty useless at short ranges since it wouldn't have enough time to actually alter its course before it hits a target. Another thing is if you are able to change the direction of the bullet mid flight im sure it will impact is velocity so you probably wouldn't get the same power as you would with a normal bullet.
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Maybe at first but the price will probably come down. When you can get grunts running headshots on OPFOR I can see the appeal. You still have to hold a laser on the target though.
 
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