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Pentagon Successfully Tests First Small-Caliber, Self-Guided Bullets [VIDEO]
The Daily Caller ^
| 11 Jul 2014
Posted on 07/11/2014 5:30:49 PM PDT by mandaladon
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Great...as long as it doesn't fall in the hands of enemies.
To: mandaladon
Great...as long as it doesn't fall in the hands of enemies. Obama ships the first crate to ISIS (or whatever the hell they're called now) Monday.
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posted on
07/11/2014 5:33:58 PM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: mandaladon
fall ?
WE aren't allowed to shoot back with NATO's without a hall pass ...
fall into the enemy's hands ?
They'll friggin' SELL 'em to the enemy until they reverse engineer 'em ... I give it 30 days, max.
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posted on
07/11/2014 5:36:02 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: mandaladon
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posted on
07/11/2014 5:36:50 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: Zeneta
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posted on
07/11/2014 5:40:29 PM PDT
by
Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
To: mandaladon
1980’s movie “Runaway” starring Tom Selleck forsaw this.
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posted on
07/11/2014 5:43:25 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: mandaladon
Pentagon Successfully Tests First Small-Caliber, Self-Guided Bullets First time I've heard 0.50 caliber bullets described as 'Small-Caliber'. The media would point out this could only be used by an automatic weapon. I know, I know, they'd still do it.
I wonder who this will first be used on. 50/50 the 50 Cal will wind up being used against Tea Party members.
To: DoughtyOne
“I wonder who this will first be used on. 50/50 the 50 Cal will wind up being used against Tea Party members.”
Seems like an awful lot of weapons we develop for use against our enemies end up in the hands of police for use against Americans.
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posted on
07/11/2014 6:11:32 PM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Things are only going to get worse.)
To: mandaladon
Great as long as their available to Americans.
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posted on
07/11/2014 6:16:59 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Brooklyn Attitude
They’re going to be much more expensive and hard to make than conventional ammunition, for the forseeable future, whereas .22, 9mm, 5.56 and other popular rounds will be plentiful in our hands. I wouldn’t want to be shot at by 20 guys with .22LR rifles, would you?
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posted on
07/11/2014 6:23:47 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: DoughtyOne
50 cal is small caliber when the media reports the govt owns those guns. When they report on citizens, anything larger than a water gun is an large caliber assault weapon. Sadly, no sarc tag.
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posted on
07/11/2014 6:27:00 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: mandaladon
Wile E. Coyote, here ya go!
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posted on
07/11/2014 6:27:58 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: mandaladon
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posted on
07/11/2014 6:40:10 PM PDT
by
satan
(The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
To: DoughtyOne
Compared to a
16"/50 caliber Mark 7 it is definitely a small caliber round.
FWIW - I am qualified to run the associated Mark 8 Range Keeper.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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07/11/2014 6:46:13 PM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
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To: Zeneta
.50-caliber bullets maneuvered independently mid-flight to accurately strike targets purposefully offset from where the firing sniper rifle was aimed. First thing I thought of was the "Fifth Element" movie! Would hate to have that gun aimed at me during a demonstration showing the bullets self-guide away from me. Effective demonstration but I'd be shaking like crazy.
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posted on
07/11/2014 8:00:49 PM PDT
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roadcat
To: roadcat
The technology is truly extraordinary.
I’m curious, when did, what year and what wars, the cannon ball go from a metal ball to something that exploded on impact ?
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posted on
07/11/2014 8:13:22 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: Zeneta
I don't know. There is this fictional show on Starz, called "Da Vinci's Demons" about a fictional version of young Leonardo Da Vinci. The most recent episode had the Church and Pope worried about an invasion fleet of Turkish ships about to sack a Christian seaport city. So Leo gets the crazy idea to have his friends core the cannon balls to lighten them, then fill them with gunpowder and a wick. So they do all this overnight, load their cannons, light the wick and shortly after fire the cannons. Yeah, right! In real life, it probably took many years of experimentation before it actually worked.
Of course, you're probably don't mean a ball that explodes after landing on a target, but a shell that detonates when it strikes.
Wonder when some hobbyist will create self-guiding ammo that regular folks can make for themselves...
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07/11/2014 8:41:47 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: mandaladon
I was making fuse timers for shells in the 1980s. The ability of electronics that small to adsorb that kind of shock and still work in that scale is indeed extraordinary.
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posted on
07/11/2014 9:01:33 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(ObamaCare IS Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
To: mandaladon
I thought that Arlen Specter's "Magic Bullet" was the first field test of a self-guided bullet.
That was back in 1963.
-PJ
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posted on
07/11/2014 9:05:05 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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