Not theoretical at all.  M1Abrams uses smooth bore ammo that is laser guided (you really think they can compute elevation, wind shear and moving lead on an independently moving target and all that stuff while jolting  over the rough ground themselves at 60mph?)  

An electronically controlled and stabilized laser locks on and then paints the enemy tank while the steerable smooth bore round homes in on it.

Have a smooth bore 50 cal rifle that fires a 50 round with a mobile nose tip that can "steer" the bullet to some degree, once again homing on a laser painted target point.   Won't shoot around corners though, not unless it is a really really BIG corner ....  it doesn't miss though.

Have artillery rounds that will do the same thing.   Mortar rounds too.  Have adaptation kits for old WWII design dumb bombs that makes them "smart bombs" using same sort of tech.

Have shoulder fired weapon that will shoot just past the wall the bad guys are crouched behind, then blow up the round 2 feet past the wall and shrapnel the hell out of whoever is behind it.

And that's just the stuff that Tom Clancy, Dale Brown and Modern Marvels (History Channel) has told us about -- then you got all the really neat new top secret stuff we haven't been told about yet.

oldNslow wrote on 03/20/13 at 15:29:06:


Thanks oldfeller - I saw it somewhere almost 7-8 years ago - popular mechanics maybe ...

Oldnslow - That is just what you think ... You think the bullets that target people and can chase and bend and go around corners and explode on contact with their body ... you think you'd know about it ?
Cool.
Srinath.

Now I have seen 4 propeller hover drones carrying an MP5 submachine gun, fired by a button push from the controller station.  Recoil from the MP5 literally pushed the hover drone straight back, but the stream of bullets continued impacting the dummy pretty good as the recoil was linear & straight back.

Night vision, hover drones, I'd hate to fight in a full out modern war ....

That training is pervasive in school. Its horrible. It w2as bad when I was there, but now its just disgusting,

I doubt Very seriuously youd see what Im talking about if it was in front of you as being Bad. Youd LOve IT.
Im mostly talking about whats in Public school. 1-12..Look at what happens to a kid who points a finger & says Bang.,

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Kid does that in school he'll be suspended for violating the ZERO TOLERANCE policy regarding weapons in school. I kid you not.
It happens almost every day somewhere. Draw a picture of a gun, same thing. Last week a kid bit a piece of pastry into the shape of a gun and got suspended. And the the school brought in counselors to talk to the other kids in case they were traumatised by seeing the deadly pastry. Do a search and you'll find dozens of similar cases.

Take a peek at your ten year olds history textbook sometime and see what the schools are teaching that is supposed to be American History.

Better not ride your Savage anywhere near a school either. If it backfires when you shut it off and a teacher hears it you're liable to be tackled by a SWAT TEAM

Teaching kids that a picture of a gun, or a finger, is the same thing as a real gun, IS brainwashing.Pretty soon they won't even be allowed to use the word. How exactly does teaching someone to be afraid of a picture, or a pastry, help prepare them to deal with the real world where real threats sometimes, unfortunate as that might be, exist.

And the public schools are intended to turn out crop after crop of little liberals. They have been for a long time. That's part of the reason this country is in the mess it's in today.