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这些消息有意思，还是有人猜是滑糖枪，子弹不转：
this thing has been in development for some time.
go on darpa’s website and you can look at a list of their programs and open up many of them. they divide their programs by purpose. if you’re interested in the programs that are more obviously ‘military’ —you want to look at the ‘tactical’ development programs. exacto is a tactical program. if you are more interested in biology or electrical engineering –those are entirely separate areas and you can look those up too, but theyre more futruristic and related to logistics or fundamental knowledge development than procuring a working advanced weapon.
the truly secret stuff will not be online, but this exacto program has been for YEARS.
it’s not a new big thing and it won’t revolutionize war. these types of bullets are either sabotted ( fired out of a mother sleave bullet which drops off ) or expensively custom designed, and they steer with FINS. so the bullet has onboard electronics to steer fins.
most likely the bullet has to be shot out of a non-standard UNRIFLED barrel, which means this is just another expensive custom sniper’s rifle rather than a truly big change to the standard high caliber 50 cal platforms that are ubiquitously mounted on truck tank and helicopter platforms.
no soldier hauls around a 50 cal as a standard spray everywhere gun.
you need a tripod for shooting these things with substantial quantities of ammunition on automatic or even semi-automatic.
the ammo is too heavy and has too much kickback for accuracy and precision to be fired semi-auto without a firm base.
p.s. i love reading about the history of warfare, statecraft on onehand, and weapons and tactical developments on the other.
darpa is the warfare side of future dynamics.
if you ask me, this guided bullet is one of their less promising technologies . however, it is not insignificant.
consider many of their technology development programs—which are ‘meta’ engineering programs to incrase the pace and effectiveness of prototyping and manufacturing. as well as many of their tactical drone programs like their drone boat mounted flying drone. for deep coastal incursions.
these are the kinds of programs that are actually going to radically alter the leading edge of marginal warfare.
a better sniper bullet? well, it’s difficult to make very substantial improvements over something that is already nearly perfect…….so no. not a big deal.
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发表于 2014-7-20 05:34
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