Military's Self-Steering Bullets Can Hit Moving Targets

[Skywizard]

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Using DARPA's self-guided bullet system, even a novice sniper was able to hit a moving target.


In what some might consider a terrifying development, the U.S. military has passed a key
milestone in creating self-steering bullets.

Using technology developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), experienced and novice shooters alike demonstrated that they could hit moving targets during a series of tests in February, agency officials announced yesterday (April 27).

Military snipers are often faced with having to hit moving targets in difficult conditions, such as high winds or dusty terrain like that found in Afghanistan. DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program was designed to increase snipers’ accuracy in these situations, by improving their range and reducing the time required to hit a target.

A video released by DARPA shows how the system uses real-time optical guidance to steer the ammunition to a moving or accelerating target, regardless of weather and other forms of interference.

In the video, an expert shooter fires at a moving target, and the self-steering bullet corrects its course to hit the target. Then, an untrained person who has never used a sniper rifle before takes aim at the moving target and the bullet still finds its mark.

“True to DARPA’s mission, EXACTO has demonstrated what was once thought impossible: the continuous guidance of a small-caliber bullet to target,” DARPA Program Manager Jerome Dunn said in a statement. “This live-fire demonstration from a standard rifle showed that EXACTO is able to hit moving and evading targets with extreme accuracy at sniper ranges unachievable with traditional rounds.”

Dunn added that achieving the self-steering capabilities with a small, .50-caliber weapon was a “major breakthrough,” which would make it possible to expand the system to all calibers.



Source: http://news.discovery.com/tech/militarys-self-steering-bullets-can-hit-moving-targets-150429.htm



peace...

[Cidersomerset]

I was just about to do a thread on this as well , entitled 'They will soon literally have a
bullet with your name on it' .......Scary stuff !!

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DARPA Announces Successful Live-Fire Test of EXACTO ‘Smart’ Bullets

Wednesday 29th April 2015 at 09:08 By David Icke

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Activist Post.....

Tuesday, April 28, 2015
DARPA Announces Successful Live-Fire Test of EXACTO "Smart" Bullets

Source
By Activist Post

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‘DARPA seems to always be at the leading edge of finding more creative
and effective means of killing. They first announced in July, 2014 their
EXACTO Project (Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance) – the first ever
guided low-caliber “smart” bullets.

A rather low-quality video of the 50-caliber round sought to demonstrate
the potential for a “state-of-the-art sniper system (that) combines a
maneuverable bullet and a real-time guidance system to track and deliver
the projectile to the target, allowing the bullet to change path during flight.”

Now DARPA is announcing that they have successfully completed “its most
successful round of live-fire tests to date.” Perhaps most notably, even a
novice shooter using the system for the first time was able to hit a moving
target with the guidance system. The target hits are shown in the newest video.’



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Read more: DARPA Announces Successful Live-Fire Test of EXACTO 'Smart' Bullets

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/04/darpa-announces-successful-live-fire.html

[Flash]

wow, now I presume they will put these bullets on drones.

This is a real nightmare.

And imagine also all the little drug lords using the same. Absolutely scary. Full slavery, no excape but death.

Gosh, how in god's land can anyone accept to design such a thing.

Just refuse to do it, scientist, just refuse, all of you, refuse.

[william r sanford72]

This movie came to mind instantly...

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truth and balance

[lucidity]

Hello Siblings,

I'm getting a strong sense that this isn't true.

Is this propaganda aimed at funding dead-end (US) research into this concept ?
Is this meant to con the Ruskies into wasting time with dead-end research ?

I sense this is science fiction... but time will tell.

be happy

lucidity :-)

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Neil Gaiman referenced these "hunter-killer" ammunition rounds in his short story "Destruction on the Peninsula";
a student named Rachel digs one of these objects out of a mound of dirt from the future...
Another object she pulls out of the site is a US 1 cent piece bearing the date "2019".


Food for thought.

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Chapter 6: Destruction - On the Peninsula[edit]
Art by Glenn Fabry

This is a story about some archaeologists who uncover and explore a peninsula from many years in the future. Chronologically, this takes place after Delirium's "Going Inside", the chapter preceding this one, featuring Delirium herself. Dialogue between Delirium and a human character indicate that the rift between Destruction and the rest of the Endless has been partially healed.

The story is narrated by a female archaeologist who has constant dreams and waking dreams of the world in many post-apocalyptic forms, indicating that she belongs to Destruction's realm; this is echoed in the events of the story as she becomes deeply attracted to him while uncovering artifacts on the peninsula.

According to Delirium, the artifacts the archaeologists uncover on the peninsula are not from the future, but a distortion of reality caused by Delirium and/or Destruction's presence in the area. In the end, the peninsula is mysteriously destroyed.

The facts that Destruction may have caused the distortion of reality, that he has agreed to talk to his family again, and that the peninsula is ultimately destroyed could somehow imply that he may or may not have come back to his functions and responsibilities.

[Lancelot]

DAPRPA are you having a laugh at us? - 'real time optical guidance.' Yeh sure, the bullet can change its course at 600mph by slightly adjusting its tiny folding wings synched with its electronic eyes. haha. What a joke.

Do people really believe this fear mongering nonsense?

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

DAPRPA are you having a laugh at us? - 'real time optical guidance.' Yeh sure, the bullet can change its course at 600mph by slightly adjusting its tiny folding wings synched with its electronic eyes. haha. What a joke.

Do people really believe this fear mongering nonsense?

http://www.livescience.com/45803-navy-aegis-ashore-missile-launcher.html

http://www.livescience.com/46772-darpa-self-guided-sniper-bullets.html

http://www.livescience.com/33692-astonishing-video-super-bullet-flies-air-dart.html






why the trash talk? lol - this one is easily verified.

[Verdilac]

Hello Siblings,

I'm getting a strong sense that this isn't true.

Is this propaganda aimed at funding dead-end (US) research into this concept ?
Is this meant to con the Ruskies into wasting time with dead-end research ?

I sense this is science fiction... but time will tell.

be happy

lucidity :-)

I'm with you on this and anyone that's ever worked for or had anything to do with the military arm of things will tell you how cost orientated they are, this flies in the face of any cost effective point of view .Unless they were ordered for a particular application, & in which case do you think they would make it public.

Propaganda would be the only point of this being general knowledge.

[Cidersomerset]

Well propaganda or not ? its definitely mainstream now, not
that that proves its real , just publically acknowledged......

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NEWBEAT.............

Self-aiming bullets developed by US defence agency hit moving target

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We've had smart guns for a while - weapons which only certain people
can fire, in certain circumstances.Most use magnets so that only someone
wearing a special ring can fire them, but fingerprint and ID chip systems
are in the pipeline.

Now, smart bullets are on the horizon - ammunition which uses guidance
systems and manoeuvrable bullets which can change direction mid-air.

Imagine a bullet tracking a moving target, and you're pretty much there.

The system, known as Exacto, was first shown off by the Defence Advanced
Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in America last year, but fresh video shows
just how advanced the technology is - it's now shown hitting moving targets.

It's a .50 calibre round designed to be used by professional snipers to account
for sudden changes in wind direction or bad weather.

But looking at this video of the bullets in use, it doesn't seem to require a huge
amount of skill for anyone to hit any moving target, even at long range.


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Quite how the rounds work is, not surprisingly, still secret.

The artist's impression of the bullet doesn't give much away either. The
specifications do mention an "optical guidance system" though.

This means the bullet could be laser-guided, with the sniper pointing a laser
light on the target which the bullet then tracks.

That technology was used in another version of a self-guided bullet, with
small fins to steer, though it's not known if it is the case here.

The exacto bullet

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/mcs/media/images/82641000/jpg/_82641752_exactoprojectile_full.jpg

Either way, it looks both terrifying and impressive.

It's not just bullets that never miss in Darpa's sights. The US government
research department is a strange mix of highly confidential projects, and
almost bragging about the sci-fi weapons it's cooking up.

This is Atlas, a robot straight out of Terminator and built alongside a company
called Boston Dynamics. There's a new version which is a bit kinder and has
softer lines - it looks like an old iMac - but it's still just as hard core.

It's actually designed, says Darpa, for disaster relief and search and rescue operations.

Read more.....Various vids of DARPAS robotic toys...............



http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32513006/self-aiming-bullets-developed-by-us-defence-agency-hit-moving-target

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Darpa: creates first ever self-guiding bullets

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[WhiteLove]

When I read these kinds of horrific stories, it reminds me about how little Obama has accomplished.