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Per the TV program I just watched, the armaments industry is hard at work on bullets that track their targets, that explode at an ad hoc range (so you can hit someone around a corner or in a foxhole, for example), and otherwise make it pretty much a given that if someone fires a gun at you, you're dead. |
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Saw this (technology on link) on Science Channel yesterday |
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[tc] I followed the link - that thing is 4.5cm in diameter - in my book, that's hardly a bullet, that's artillery. |
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I'm seeing the dum-dum bullets from "Roger Rabbit". |
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Read sci-fi. Many books have this. |
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[DF]: Do these sci-fi books explain how it works? (Not that this idea does, of course.)
<baldrick>"... so I thought that if I *owned* the bullet with my name on it ..."</baldrick>" |
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[angel] -- I was proposing tracking mechanisms. The article proposes steering mechanisms. |
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