[Newsbot]

Title: Engineers create �self-guided' bullet
Category: Tech
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2012-02-02 06:17:07

[QBall]

Very cool, but I have to imagine each round is going to cost a few hundred bucks each (unless economies of scale kick in huge). Then again you shouldn't need more than one per kill if it actually works. I guess it'll make the art of sniping obsolete.

[raydan]

Can you see me now?






...pulls trigger.

[Regina]

[DrCaleb]

I saw a similar test IIRC on 'Future Weapons'.

Self guiding mortar round. They fired it 1/2 mile off target, over 10 miles or something and it still hit the target dead on.

Very cool!

[BartSimpson]

There's never going to be a substitute for a shooter who knows his kit.

[Hyack]

$1:

Aside from the military, Sandia Labs said potential customers for the bullet could include law enforcement and recreational shooters.

I don't know about those in Albuquerque, but I don't know of many here in Canada who shoot the Ma Deuce for recreational purposes, or for any other reasons either.