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savage3000 hat geschrieben:vielleicht bestellt uns da norbert die fürs heer auch. oba die sparvariante OHNE die korrekturflügerl

i weis jetzt nicht ob der nachfolgende bericht wirklich ernst gemeint ist oder nicht...

The “One Shot” program originally aimed to give snipers the power to hit a target from 2000 meters away in winds as high as 40 miles per hour. In the first phases of the 3-year-old program, shooters used prototype rifles dressed with lasers and fancy computer hardware to do damage from 1,100 meters away in 18-mile-an-hour winds. The scope-mounted lasers can “see” wind turbulence in the path of the bullet and feed the data to computers, enabling real-time calculation of — and compensation for — the wind-blown trajectory.

The program is just one of several high-tech hardware upgrades the U.S. military is pursuing for its snipers. Plans are also in place to make bullets that can change course in mid-air and a stealth sniper scope that would make shooters all but invisible.

With luck, Darpa will have its new supersniper rifles by the fall of 2011.

The One Shot program will develop a field-testable prototype, observation, measurement, and ballistic calculation system, which enable Snipers to hit targets with the first round, under crosswind conditions, up to the maximum effective range of the weapon (RE). The system developed should provide day and night direct observation of the target, measure all relevant physical phenomena that influence a ballistic trajectory, and rapidly calculate and display both the aim point offset and expected crosswind variability (confidence metric) in the shooters riflescope. The system must exploit novel technologies to operate over a range of visibilities, atmospheric turbulence, scintillation, and environmental conditions.

Das US-Militär arbeitet nach eigenen Angaben an Gewehrkugeln, deren Flugbahn sich nach dem Schuss verändern lässt. Die dem Pentagon zugeordnete Forschungsbehörde DARPA veröffentlichte auf ihrer Website ein Video, das ein im Flug gesteuertes Projektil vom Kaliber 50 zeigt.

DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program recently conducted the first successful live-fire tests demonstrating in-flight guidance of .50-caliber bullets. This video shows EXACTO rounds maneuvering in flight to hit targets that are offset from where the sniper rifle is aimed. EXACTO’s specially designed ammunition and real-time optical guidance system help track and direct projectiles to their targets by compensating for weather, wind, target movement and other factors that could impede successful hits.