A new bullet to fix their journey

Engineers of the Sandia National laboratories have managed to insert a processor and other technological advances in machine gun bullet to guide it to the target automatically correcting his journey.

After three years, the prototype of the advanced bullet represents a step forward in the war of the future in which, according to scientists and experts, driven technology and information.

"Laboratory can manufacture so incredibly tiny machines that amazes me," commented Jones network, one of the Sandia researchers who helped develop the bullet caliber 50 laser-guided. "The future is only limited by our imagination."

For decades, scientists from Government and industry have been devoted to developing more precise weapons. Recently, the Department of Defense Research Agency awarded tens of millions of dollars in contracts to companies for u000adevelop ammunition to expert marksmen and special sights which take into account wind and other environmental variables.

Sandia was proposed to provide bulletproof guided the M2 machine gun that first used the U.S. Army almost 80 years ago. With 10 centimeters (4 inches) long and 1.25 centimeter (half an inch) in diameter, the bullet is aimed as a tiny guided projectile and can give white more than 1.6 kilometer (a mile) away.

Is designed to rotate and fold with a capacity of up to 30 corrections per second. "Everyone thought that it was too difficult to manufacture objects sufficiently small." We knew that we could deal with that. "Also it would be too complicated or expensive", said.

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Lack finish the testing of the prototype
completed virtually the scientific face of the project, network Jones said that the next step for Sandia is associated with a private company to u000aend to finish the prototype tests and drop bullets autoguiadas market.

So far the project has consumed more than one million dollars in grants for research and development. Computer simulations indicate that a conventional bullet, under real conditions, could err the target located 800 metres (half a mile) by about 9 meters (10 yards), but according to the patent, own bullet could impact within the 20 centimeters (8 inches).

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