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LAST EDITED ON Jul-19-12 AT 10:47AM (MST)[p]I guess those 700+ yard elk head shots may just work.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/07...turn-average-joe-into-sniper/?intcmp=features
In February tests, a 4-inch-long prototype from Sandia Labs demonstrated it can change direction in flight and hit a target more than a mile away, thanks to an optical sensor in its nose and fins for guidance. The sensor locates a laser trained on a distant target, while the bullet's brains process the data and steer the fins.
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Sandia?s program is no slouch, of course.
Brian Kast and Red Jones, two hunters who also happen to work as engineers at the National Lab, developed this bullet and built it with commercially available parts.
According to their patent, the self-guided bullet they built is accurate from half a mile away to within eight inches, while a normal bullet could be off by approximately thirty feet in ?real world? conditions.
Hmm, I understand the world record for .50BMG is less than that, at 1000yards.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/07...turn-average-joe-into-sniper/?intcmp=features
In February tests, a 4-inch-long prototype from Sandia Labs demonstrated it can change direction in flight and hit a target more than a mile away, thanks to an optical sensor in its nose and fins for guidance. The sensor locates a laser trained on a distant target, while the bullet's brains process the data and steer the fins.
....
Sandia?s program is no slouch, of course.
Brian Kast and Red Jones, two hunters who also happen to work as engineers at the National Lab, developed this bullet and built it with commercially available parts.
According to their patent, the self-guided bullet they built is accurate from half a mile away to within eight inches, while a normal bullet could be off by approximately thirty feet in ?real world? conditions.
Hmm, I understand the world record for .50BMG is less than that, at 1000yards.
