{"id":106704,"date":"2020-05-07T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/watch-darpas-magic-bullets-change-course-to-hit-moving-targets"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:46:56","slug":"watch-darpas-magic-bullets-change-course-to-hit-moving-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/watch-darpas-magic-bullets-change-course-to-hit-moving-targets","title":{"rendered":"Watch DARPA\u2019s magic bullets change course to hit moving targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YoOaJclkSZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/5\/5\/5683504\/gun-control-the-nra-wants-to-take-smart-guns-away\">have smart guns<\/a>, but DARPA has taken the next logical step \u2014 the defense agency has built smart bullets. The military agency has shown off new footage of its Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance \u2014 shortened to EXACTO rounds \u2014 that show the smart bullets <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/NewsEvents\/Releases\/2015\/04\/27.aspx\">maneuvering in mid-air<\/a> to hit moving targets.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/newsevents\/releases\/2014\/07\/10a.aspx\">first showed off<\/a> its EXACTO technology in a video released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/7\/11\/5891349\/50-caliber-bullet-direction-darpa\">last year<\/a>. The clip highlighted the agency\u2019s advanced bullet as it\u2019s fired from a rifle, showing it veering off course half-way through its flight to hit a designated area. This new video, taken during tests earlier this February, shows the rounds compensating for the acceleration of a moving target, deviating from their natural course to slam into their torso-shaped objective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 face_with_colon_three We already have smart guns, but DARPA has taken the next logical step \u2014 the defense agency has built smart bullets. The military agency has shown off new footage of its Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance \u2014 shortened to EXACTO rounds \u2014 that show the smart bullets maneuvering in mid-air to hit moving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}