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DoD Wants Bullet That Can Change Direction After Being Fired
military.com ^ | 12-15-2014 | Stars and Stripes  |  by Matt Burke

Posted on 12/15/2014 11:41:47 AM PST by Citizen Zed

New .50-caliber bullets that can change direction after they have been fired could soon make U.S. military snipers more deadly.

The EXACTO program — or Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance — is being developed by California's Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC at the behest of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, according to a DARPA video posted on Youtube.

"The objective of the EXACTO program is to revolutionize rifle accuracy and range by developing the first ever guided small-caliber bullet," DARPA officials said in a July statement accompanying the video. "The EXACTO .50-caliber round and optical sighting technology expects to greatly extend the day and nighttime range over current state-of-the-art sniper systems."

The specially designed ammunition can change direction in midair.

How that is done remains a tightly held secret. The Defense Department and its related agencies declined to comment.

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To: Citizen Zed
The specially designed ammunition can change direction in midair.

Arlen Spectre would know about that.

21 posted on 12/15/2014 12:02:47 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: PGR88

It isnt by a small arms caliber standard. OTOH is tiny compared to all other guided projectiles, fired from artillery. Its hard to imagine how a guidance system could be shoe horned into the thing still using barrels w/ a standard twist rate. Perhaps its so secret not even the designers know it. ;)


22 posted on 12/15/2014 12:03:20 PM PST by 556x45
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To: Citizen Zed
They are investing in useless technology. The age of the gun is over.

Picture a swarm of quadrotor drones, each with a 1 inch barrel and a .22 short cartridge, descending en-masse to kill a soldier or civilian.

23 posted on 12/15/2014 12:07:26 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Two parties, governing AGAINST the will of the people, not with the consent of the governed." --MrB)
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To: GreenHornet

LOL - I was going to suggest they contact Warner Brothers for assistance...


24 posted on 12/15/2014 12:07:45 PM PST by pollyshy
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To: Citizen Zed
BOOMerang ...
25 posted on 12/15/2014 12:08:20 PM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
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To: Citizen Zed
DoD Wants Bullet That Can Change Direction After Being Fired

Next for development...

A bullet or small missile, that can be fired, and will remain in air, until its intended target comes into view.

IOW, the perfect assassination weapon.
26 posted on 12/15/2014 12:10:01 PM PST by adorno (a)
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To: Citizen Zed

When they gonna invent a voter that votes Right after saying they voted Leftie to the pollster? Oygenics..


27 posted on 12/15/2014 12:10:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: GreenHornet

So has MLB.

http://knuckleball.com/that-crazy-r-a-dickey-knuckleball-gif/

Freegards


28 posted on 12/15/2014 12:11:36 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: lee martell
DoD Wants Bullet That Can Change Direction After Being Fired

And after it is designed, it will only cost $500,000 per cartridge.

It's like the overdesigned/underperforming Shillelagh wire-guided missiles fired from the aluminum-"armored" M551 Sheridan light tank with its 155-mm main gun (the 18-ton tank jumped backwards every time the main gun fired a round of ammunition with its problemmatic semi-combustible cartridge). Designed to allow the gunner to changed the course of the fired missile to stay on a moving target, the Shillelagh missiles, no longer produced, ended up only being fired in combat at immovable bunkers in Desert Storm.

29 posted on 12/15/2014 12:12:14 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s called a “missile”.


30 posted on 12/15/2014 12:12:58 PM PST by captain_dave
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To: Citizen Zed
DARPA self guided bullet test
31 posted on 12/15/2014 12:15:12 PM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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To: ameribbean expat
What are they going to call it? The “Clinton”?

I heard they were going to call it 'The JFK'.

32 posted on 12/15/2014 12:19:38 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Carl Vehse

I know very little about weaponry, but yes, the example you gave clearly sounds like Style over Substance or Functionality. And this is the result after years of R&D.
It’s like producing a movie so expensive it could never turn a profit. The same thing happens when the government or the EPA makes certain corporations use ethanol or ‘green based’ fuels that cost many times what easily available fuels would cost.
I hope to take a pistol training course next year as one of my New Years Resolutions.


33 posted on 12/15/2014 12:22:21 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Lazamataz

Interesting perspective! The Age Of The Gun Is Over! We have drones now.


34 posted on 12/15/2014 12:23:59 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Malone LaVeigh

This one is a little bit more informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAzAmYv364


35 posted on 12/15/2014 12:25:16 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I use to say that everytime I missed a deer (or duck, or tweetie bird).


36 posted on 12/15/2014 12:38:21 PM PST by McGruff (Ummm...)
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To: Carl Vehse

Alas the poor Sheridan. I always had a soft spot for it. I didn’t know those missiles were ever used except for some training.

There was a demo film of Sheridan on YouTube that was good.


37 posted on 12/15/2014 12:43:25 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: eartrumpet

True. I had envisioned a sabot type round: outer case to handle the rifled barrel then little winglets popping out when the casing falls away. A 50 would be about the smallest calibre that I cn see being suitable. I’d think for the sake of cost, and flexibility, you’d want to still have a rifled barrel to handle regular ball ammo.

I’m stuck on guidance though. Electronics to be sure, but IR/LASER, RF slaved to the scope?

Oh a thought. What about a hollow point type design only with tunnels running to four ports at the back and a little mechanism of some sort to open and close the ports to affect the desired trajectory.


38 posted on 12/15/2014 12:49:21 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: eartrumpet

Seems more like a small guided missile.


39 posted on 12/15/2014 12:50:08 PM PST by onedoug
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To: wally_bert

It’s been done before.

Angelina Jolie perfected it in the movie Wanted.

Before that we used to call them ricochets!

Two days ago I shot a button buck on the last day of PA deer season with a Mossberg 464 Zombie Edition 30-30 at 165 yards. The only guidance system I had was a 3-9 power scope and a steady aim.

Deer sausage and deer sticks in 2 to 3 weeks yummy........


40 posted on 12/15/2014 12:58:34 PM PST by Johnny_cash (10 out of 10 idiots support 0Bama!)
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