Missile Bullet

Just what we need, faster, better, more accurate war.

Yes patty this would be GREAT for WAR!! But it said in the link that the developers think it could also have RECREATIONAL USE!!
That made me think of THIS! :lol: :coolsmile:

Of course, given the I.Q. of most soldiers it will probably go like THIS
:ahhh:

This could reduce the cost of war. If I remember my history correctly, a thousand (1,000) rounds of ammunition were expended for each enemy kill.

Yea! Yet another overpriced weapon (do you really think they're going to be quote affordable unquote) that if it works will end up in the hands of drug smugglers and terrorists. Probably even before the first soilder ever uses one in an actual war setting.

Umm... most people in the military above the equivalent rank of Sargent have college educations. If Family Guy is your barometer of real world I guess that says a lot.

Given that each bullet will probably cost 1000 times more than an ordinary one, the savings might be minimal.

It would certainly make a difference, any joe would potentially be able to match the skills of a top sniper, so engagements could be conducted at greater distances, which is generally safer (as long as your enemy doesn't have comparable tech). However if the bullets are laser guided, then the light beam would at the very least give away the position of the target designator, and unlike laser-guided bombs and shells, that is not going to be an aircraft flying at a safe altitude above the ground (even the best lasers diverge by about 0.5 to 1.0 mrad, or about 3 to 5 feet per mile) but either another squad member or the shooter himself.

Mind you, they would be a killer addition to autoguns, literally. All the problems with slew-rate v. accuracy, tolerances, vibration, etc can be compensated for if a small robust laser designator does the fine work and the rest of the turret simply has to point in the right general direction.

Imagine a bunch of robot sentrys, dropped into an area like submunitions, that right themselves, steady themselves then start taking out everything their remote operator (or internal software?) selects at two klicks out. It'd be better than a minefield.

Been done already. 😖

"Runaway" a 1984 film starring Tom Selleck, before he got the hangdog look on his face, and Gene Simmons,(Yes, that Gene Simmons) as the bad guy. Not a very good movie with an uneven plot and bad pacing, the futuristic weapon was a projectile that was smart enough to pursue a specific person and no one else.

@Baughbe: Somebody's got to work the kinks out of them!

@Todd Sorry if I offended you. My point was more about friendly fire and how better weapons won't solve the problem.

@ Todd, I work with some ex-military, up to and including an ex-major. While it is not true for all, it is true for most of them that Peter from Family Guy is a genius compared to them. The smartest one of the bunch, the only one I would trust with a firearm was a Sargent, not an officer. The Major managed to staple himself in the foot while eating lunch. We still have not figured out how.

Actually, if you can make a bullet steer towards a laser designation, you can presumably make it steer away from one too.

That might make smart bullets more useful in close combat situations, a patrol switch on their personal IFFs and if a fire-fight starts they are (partly) protected against being shot by a colleague. You could be a lot more effective with suppressing or covering fire if you could be reasonable sure you couldn't hit your own guys in the process.

My dad was air-force, and on one occasion was involved with the evacuation of diplomatic personnel from a country in the throws of revolution. Part of this was that all sorts of gear, including personal effects had been hurriedly stuffed into flimsy lidded cardboard boxes and piled into hastily obtained shipping crates as best anyone had time to manage.

Of course, it was vitally important that these crates were not tipped on their sides or upside down or the contents of all the boxes would spill out into a single heap of the unmarked belongings of everyone from the ambassador to Janet from the typing pool. To this end, a sergeant from the air force regiment (the ground support group) took it upon himself to take a stencil and a can of spray paint and make sure "^ THIS WAY UP ^" was painted on every side of every crate, so there could be no mistake.

No mistake that is except for the fact that he was holding the stencil upside down the whole time...

When he eventually realised his error, he took immediate steps to rectify it and painted a second set of instructions, the right way up this time, right below the first. Whether he ever intended to paint out the incorrect ones but forgot, or whether it simply never occurred to him will probably never be known, but his prompt action did at least raise the odds of the crates being loaded right way up to 50% from the previous value of 0%, so it wasn't completely in vain.

(Actually I would be surprised if any were inverted since they were all the right way up to begin with, but as a kid I didn't think about it as anything but a funny story.)

Intoxicated? Wish I was there with ya sweetie! 😉

I've been wanting a Smith and Wesson 500.

I would also like to register again but things are closed. Can one of you contact Patty to allow such or set it up where she can pass along the info via private email?

I would like to be regged as BrokeDad if it is available or if not your choice of something close. Thanks. Send her the information if you can set up things.

Yes, let me know please.