Self Steering Bullet Developed By Lockheed Martin
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- a6m5zero
I get the impression that these bullets will be highly impractical for sometime, just based on cost alone. Not to mention that you will need another dude painting the target for you, right? I guess it could revolutionize sniping. And if it becomes available to terrorists, you could get shot by the Secret Service when you fool around with your laser pointer at the wrong place & wrong time. 
I just hope they never get too good with this technology, because we don't want our towns looking like this:
I just hope they never get too good with this technology, because we don't want our towns looking like this:
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- BasedAckbar
Country mired in economic mess.
Invest in self steering bullet.
Scumbag Government?
Invest in self steering bullet.
Scumbag Government?
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War is so OP now. Remember when you actually had to aim for your enemies, man, those were the days. Now it's all just predator missiles and guided shells.
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You do realize that politicians run the government, right?
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terminator363
Ask anyone who was actually around for the "the days" if they would've liked guided bullets. I'm sure they won't reply with "OP."
Feel free to strip naked and attack with your bare hands
a6m5I get the impression that these bullets will be highly impractical for sometime, just based on cost alone. Not to mention that you will need another dude painting the target for you, right? I guess it could revolutionize sniping. And if it becomes available to terrorists, you could get shot by the Secret Service when you fool around with your laser pointer at the wrong place & wrong time.
It will be impractical mostly due to cost and packaging issues. 10cm per round is huge.
Mount the laser painter on the rifle you fire the round from. For moving targets you can simply keep them lazed. Long range targets will require little to no range and windage adjustment. One person required. Of course a spotter would be more effective, but not impossible otherwise.
Nearly every military innovation will eventually end up in the hands of the people it was built to fight.
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Until the jammers jam your shells and missiles.
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I guess for straightforward shots, you are right. I got the impression that developers wanted it to do more than that from the LED picture in the original post, but bottom line, like the expert in the article said, they could be just looking to achieve better accuracy from shots fired on ground.
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Ask anyone who was actually around for the "the days" if they would've liked guided bullets. I'm sure they won't reply with "OP."
Feel free to strip naked and attack with your bare hands
Nearly every military innovation will eventually end up in the hands of the people it was built to fight.
I was just kidding
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Given how complex this thing is going to be, it's not going to mean much more for us unprotected civilians than... well... sniper rifles in general.
Look, we've had rifle-armed madmen going for politicians since time immemorial, and our soldiers are shot at all the time by rifle-armed guerillas, but that's the easy stuff to source.
I've yet to see a headline showing US servicemen killed by an insurgent armed with a night-vision equipped .50 caliber Barrett... so I'm not going to lose any sleep over a slightly more accurate big caliber bullet that requires a rifle that's even bigger and heavier and equipped with a bulky scope and a long-range laser pointer...
Might as well worry about madmen shooting laser-guided shoulder munitions at the next GOP candidate...
Look, we've had rifle-armed madmen going for politicians since time immemorial, and our soldiers are shot at all the time by rifle-armed guerillas, but that's the easy stuff to source.
I've yet to see a headline showing US servicemen killed by an insurgent armed with a night-vision equipped .50 caliber Barrett... so I'm not going to lose any sleep over a slightly more accurate big caliber bullet that requires a rifle that's even bigger and heavier and equipped with a bulky scope and a long-range laser pointer...
Might as well worry about madmen shooting laser-guided shoulder munitions at the next GOP candidate...
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Not to mention the rifles for these would likely be worthless for other ammunition as well, due to what will likely be far less, if nearly any, rifling.
The main application I see for this will be taking out high importance targets, likely personal. Or suicide bombers in combat zones. Shots at a mile or more have a lot of variables coming into play, and this should reduce their impact heavily.
And I'm rather curious about how much each of these rounds will cost...
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Well, not quite.
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A recent re-enactment showed how many of the misconceptions (like the "magic bullet") came from people assuming facts without considering the actual physical scenario. Some of the restored home videos shot from different angles to the Zapruder film showed how flawed these assumptions are.
The fact was, Oswald was a well-trained Marine marksman with an accurate rifle who got off three shots within a few seconds of each other, yet missed with two. (The first of which, it is theorized, bounced off the traffic light which obstructed his view of the limo as it came around the corner) A conspiracy involving extra gunmen lying in the grass out in the open surrounded by hundreds of witnesses with cameras and videocameras is less believable than one involving just a single shooter hidden within the safety and anonymity of a dark window overlooking the parade route.
What he did was not categorically more difficult nor more outstanding than what other Armed Forces snipers have done over the years, with even simpler equipment. (reference the Stalingrad snipers)
Before we start worrying about magic bullets, we should worry about the large number of trained snipers who leave the service after deployment overseas who may have become mentally unbalanced by what they saw and did there.
Remember, the dread DC sniper was a trained Army rifleman using a regular hunting rifle firing through a hole in the trunk of his car, using pretty cheap ammunition.
The fact was, Oswald was a well-trained Marine marksman with an accurate rifle who got off three shots within a few seconds of each other, yet missed with two. (The first of which, it is theorized, bounced off the traffic light which obstructed his view of the limo as it came around the corner) A conspiracy involving extra gunmen lying in the grass out in the open surrounded by hundreds of witnesses with cameras and videocameras is less believable than one involving just a single shooter hidden within the safety and anonymity of a dark window overlooking the parade route.
What he did was not categorically more difficult nor more outstanding than what other Armed Forces snipers have done over the years, with even simpler equipment. (reference the Stalingrad snipers)
Before we start worrying about magic bullets, we should worry about the large number of trained snipers who leave the service after deployment overseas who may have become mentally unbalanced by what they saw and did there.
Remember, the dread DC sniper was a trained Army rifleman using a regular hunting rifle firing through a hole in the trunk of his car, using pretty cheap ammunition.
