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by Tondoteottotote on February 10th, 2005

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We have heat-seeking missiles today, but what would it take to build heat-seeking bullets? Could they be programmed to only target specific body parts? Or only specific people?

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  • by Drinking Dano on February 19th, 2005

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    They are working on this right now. The U.S. Military is currently investigating what it will take to put microchips in to bullets that will direct its trajectory.

    The idea is that a bullet is launched at an exact area on a target using a laser (So a heat seeking bullet wouldn’t be far behind) target system.

    When a bullet leaves the barrel, many factors can affect its trajectory including heat, humidity, angle and air density.

    The microchip in the bullet would extend fins from one of four angles (or any combination of the four) to correct its trajectory.

    The big problem right now is getting the fins out fast enough to correct an error of a hunk of metal traveling at better than 2000 feet per second. This is largely being looked at for long range shooting.

    As for specific body parts or people, I don’t see why not if that area was targeted with the laser, but as for a heat seeking bullet, I would imagine that it would require more computing power then a wee microchip could handle at current technology levels.

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    • And the bullet would be the size of.... A MISSLE!

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on August 25th, 2007

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