Back in 1984, the film "Runaway" featured an evil baddie with a gun that fired guided bullets...They zero'ed in on the victim's DNA signature or whatever.
A few years after that, one of the Discovery network's "future tech" shows did a segment on guided bullets that were under development. The prototype they showed looked a lot like a miniaturized air-to-ground missile, with unfolding guidance fins and some sort of sensor in the nose. That would have been late 80s, as I recall.
Hadn't heard much more about such projects since, but Slashdot just reported on a DARPA project that's pretty much ready to go on-line...
http://ift.tt/VVeweE
Apparently this is a laser-guided system, with the operator required to keep the laser on-target until the bullet impacts. This means extreme long-range shots are more deadly... With the long flight times of bullets fired at a mile or more the target is likely to move.
No DNA seekers yet.... That we're being told about.
A few years after that, one of the Discovery network's "future tech" shows did a segment on guided bullets that were under development. The prototype they showed looked a lot like a miniaturized air-to-ground missile, with unfolding guidance fins and some sort of sensor in the nose. That would have been late 80s, as I recall.
Hadn't heard much more about such projects since, but Slashdot just reported on a DARPA project that's pretty much ready to go on-line...
http://ift.tt/VVeweE
Apparently this is a laser-guided system, with the operator required to keep the laser on-target until the bullet impacts. This means extreme long-range shots are more deadly... With the long flight times of bullets fired at a mile or more the target is likely to move.
No DNA seekers yet.... That we're being told about.
via JREF Forum http://ift.tt/W5rN4R
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