My question is why would someone want such a bullet? “Smart” bombs made defeating enemies nearly impossible. They made people expect that so-called “innocents” would not be harmed and led to the staging of collateral damage which the liberal media love to cover. “Smart” bullets would further that fallacy and the media would use the unrealistic expectations of technology to further push their anti gun agenda. No thank you.
“Innocents not be harmed...” Yeah, slippery slope.
Brain Storm: How about cops use smart bullets that guide on bad guys. Or just ‘wing them’.
(I want to throw in a Will Rogers comment about a headline: ‘Innocent New Yorkers shot on the street’ and he says ‘That’s the best shooting ever done in this town. Hard to find four innocent people in New York.’)
Now how to designate a bad guy? Implant a chip? Image recognition of someone holding a gun? Facial image comparison with NSA data base?
Or home on images of 4-legged fur-covered objects with wagging tails.
In reality a 7.62 has so much linear and rotational inertia it would be hard to get a control surface big enough to deflect its ballistic path very much. Note how the .50 cal has about 4 times the original bullet size for the new tail.