In America, we can't afford health care or good education, but we can shoot the fuck out of you in amazing ways

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

In America, we can't afford health care or good education, but we can shoot the fuck out of you in amazing ways

Basically, if you have a sniper shooting at you from behind a window, this gun lets you shoot a bullet that goes inside the room and then detonates. Here is how it works:

As the 25-millimetre round is fired, the gunsight sends a radio signal to a chip inside the bullet, telling it the precise distance to the target. A spiral groove inside the barrel makes the bullet rotate as it travels, and as it also contains a magnetic transducer, this rotation through the Earth’s magnetic field generates an alternating current. A patent granted to the bullet’s maker, Alliant Techsystems, reveals that the chip uses fluctuations in this current to count each revolution and, as it knows the distance covered in one spin, it can calculate how far it has travelled.