This New Self-Guided Bullet Is Nailing Targets Over A Mile Away

[Hazcat]

The possibilities for failure in long-range shooting are as immense as they are mind-numbing. Pitch, yaw, air density, heat, cold, the curve of the earth, and the planet's rotation on its axis all conspire make shots at half-a-mile miss, on average, by about 30 feet.

Sandia Labs looks like they've changed all that with their new self-guided round, which sheds enough convention that it resembles a small missile more than a traditional bullet (via Katie Drummond at Danger Room).

Four-inches long, laser-guided, while sporting fins and a forward center of gravity, Sandia's bullet has an optical sensor in the nose that guides it to the target, while an eight-bit processor running a proprietary algorithm steers the round as it flies. Sandia expects the new technology to be developed quickly and inexpensively.

Because of the bullet's diminutive size compared to, say, a full-scale missile, the same flight corrections can be performed dozens of times per second in its Mach 2.1 flight. Sandia's engineers expect to raise that speed to military requirements using customized gunpowder

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bi-self-guided-bullet-2012-1#ixzz1l4iBIJIC

[Big Frank]

It reminds me of this.

[2HOW]

same thing I thought, you ever wonder why the sci fi stuff you see on TV becomes reality a few years later? makes you go HMMM

[Ping]

Have not seen that movie in years Jumbofrank.

Amazing what they are coming up with. Look at all the technology from Star Trek that we have today.

[Big Frank]

I thiink I'm the only one that doesn't have a Star Trek communicator. 

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

Sci Fi writers come up with ideas such as going around the world submerged in a Submarine then designers work toward that goal. Nemo's Nautilus directly inspired Commander Beech's USS Triton.
Several Sci Fi writers such as Benford and Asimov actually were engineers and consultants to NASA.

[Tyler Durden]

I thiink I'm the only one that doesn't have a Star Trek communicator. 

it's 2012 already, where's my jetpack and my flying car?!?!   

[tombogan03884]

it's 2012 already, where's my jetpack and my flying car?!?!   

With Texting while driving, paying more attention to the phone than the road, drunks, and the other general stupidity that kills thousands per year in just 2 dimensions I can't imagine the slaughter if these a holes could fly as well.

[Solus]

With Texting while driving, paying more attention to the phone than the road, drunks, and the other general stupidity that kills thousands per year in just 2 dimensions I can't imagine the slaughter if these a holes could fly as well.

I agree...it sounds like a great way to weed out the gene pool