owndjoo Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Thought this was pretty cool.http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/29/us/us-military-self-guided-bullet/index.html# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfman1 Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Wow! I figured it was only a matter of time. What worries me is when they tout this stuff you know our enemies can see this too and are going to do anything to get there hands on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFlash Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 Do you want such a thing in the hands of yourlocal police department? They will end up withit and I'm not so sure I like that idea. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 (edited) DARPA handed out this project in the late 80s, to anyone that could come up with something. I worked on it a bit, got nothing... but did realize that guidance could go in the first round, and simple infra-red seekers could get the next 4 to 6 rounds to follow the exact same path. Cheaper that way. We were more interested in guidance for aircraft air-to-air cannon projectiles. The DARPA project that blew our minds was to design guidance in a one inch square ablative projectile that could be dropped/launched from orbit to a target on the ground. Wut? ablative = won't burn up on re-entry in the atmosphere Edited May 3, 2015 by ReconRat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owndjoo Posted May 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 DARPA handed out this project in the late 80s, to anyone that could come up with something. I worked on it a bit, got nothing... but did realize that guidance could go in the first round, and simple infra-red seekers could get the next 4 to 6 rounds to follow the exact same path. Cheaper that way. We were more interested in guidance for aircraft air-to-air cannon projectiles. The DARPA project that blew our minds was to design guidance in a one inch square ablative projectile that could be dropped/launched from orbit to a target on the ground. Wut? ablative = won't burn up on re-entry in the atmosphereAla, Rod of God? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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