DARPA develops bullet guidance system "EXACTO" which snaps the target with snap-off ballistic on the way

ByMassachusetts National Guard

Department of DefenseNational Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)Has developed a system to guide bullets of 50 caliber rifle (objective sniper rifle) from the original orbit towards the target, and we are testing with live ammunition. That movie has been uploaded to YouTube, but the trajectory is a movie "WantedIt looks pretty creepy like a bending curve.

2014/07/10 EXACTO Demonstrates First-Ever Guided. 50-Caliber Bullets
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/07/10a.aspx

The state of the test being done this year is Kore.

EXACTO Demonstrates First-Ever Guided. 50-Caliber Bullets - YouTube


The first half of the movie is a test on February 25. There is a target in the red mark on the left side, but the point aimed at by the rifle is the part marked with green. If there is no induction, the bullet should land near the green sign.


Fire shot, the bulk of light stretching from the left side is the bullet position, the band of light remaining behind it is trajectory.


The trajectory should originally draw a parabola, but it crooked along the way. However, it does not hit the target either.


Continued on the test on April 21st. Although the way of coloring is opposite, it is the same that there is a target on the left side and the original landing point on the right side.


The trajectory that the red line is supposed to be originally drawn, the one showing the trajectory of the bullet that the green shot.


It is like turning balls and draws an S-shaped curve towards the target.


This is because DARPA's "EXACTO"(ExTremeAcCuracyTAskedORdnance) system, which consists of a bullet and a real-time guidance device that tracks the position of the target and notifies bullets.

As bullets are affected by weather, wind, movement of targets, etc., the units deployed in Afghanistan are hard to find moving targets quickly when sniper, and in order to not put the troops in danger, There was a need for a mechanism to capture the target with.

Although actual test deployment is not carried out at the moment at the time of the test at the present moment, as these systems become more advanced, whichever will the bullets fired automatically will hit the target without permission ......