Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Frightening Future of War: "Inescapable Smart Bullets, Biometric Data and Armed Drones with Facial Recognition"

Frightening Future of War: "Inescapable Smart Bullets, Biometric Data and Armed Drones with Facial Recognition":
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is arguably one of the most terrifying limbs of the US Government. 
Every week they announce progress on some outlandish new weapon. 
Though surely they want enemies to be terrified, the technology should not be taken lightly.
This time, they say they are in the late stages of developing bullets you can’t dodge — ‘smart bullets’ that will hit a target even if its aim is off. 
These smart bullets are .50 caliber rounds equipped with optical sensors.
...“True to DARPA’s mission, EXACTO has demonstrated what was once thought impossible: the continuous guidance of a small-caliber bullet to target,” said DARPA’s program manager Jerome Dunn.
...“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. 
Fitting EXACTO’s guidance capabilities into a small .50-caliber size is a major breakthrough and opens the door to what could be possible in future guided projectiles across all calibers,” Dunn continued.
Here is an animation of how the rounds work.

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