Those three Navy SEAL�snipers who ended the hostage crisis�on the high seas yesterday are amazing. Picking off two pirates who briefly poked their heads out of a small covered lifeboat, and simultaneously shooting a third pirate through the boat's tiny window? At dusk using night vision? From a heaving, tilting and rolling ship, aiming at pirates who were also on a bobbing boat? Seems impossible.
Even more remarkable feats will be possible when they get their new laser-guided bullets, capable of changing course in mid-air. Called EXACTO (EXtreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance), the $22 million smart bullet tech senses air currents and moving targets, adjusting a bullet's flight so it can stay exactly on course.�Darpa, inventors of GPS and lots more, says this gee-whiz technology will "provide a dramatic new capability to the U.S. military."
Not cool enough? The Darpa researchers are also working on smart bullets guided by frickin' lasers and aimed by�scopes that use heat haze�to amplify vision from distances of over a mile away. That makes the snipers completely invisible to their targets � they'll never know what hit them. Just don't point that thing at me, seaman.
Via�Danger Room
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