{"id":33135,"date":"2017-01-03T23:47:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T07:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/watch-darpas-new-self-guided-bullets-turn-in-mid-flight-following-their-target"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:05:07","slug":"watch-darpas-new-self-guided-bullets-turn-in-mid-flight-following-their-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/watch-darpas-new-self-guided-bullets-turn-in-mid-flight-following-their-target","title":{"rendered":"Watch DARPA\u2019s New Self-Guided Bullets Turn in Mid-Flight, Following Their Target"},"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>In Brief DARPA has created self-steering bullets which use a real-time optical guidance system to hit both moving and accelerating targets with high accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>You may have seen the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0493464\/\">Wanted<\/a>. Sure, the movie was almost unrecognizable from the <a href=\"http:\/\/comicvine.gamespot.com\/wanted\/4050-18009\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Millar comic book series<\/a> it was <b><i>very<\/i><\/b> loosely based on. But that didn\u2019t stop anyone from pretending to be a bullet-curving, badass, supervillain-with-a-heart sniper like Angelina Jolie after seeing it.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/videos\/darpa-building-amazing-vertical-take-off-plane\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s (DARPA)<\/a> new self-steering bullet is about to change the pretend part into reality.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/wanteds-curved-bullet-now-a-reality\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/wanteds-curved-bullet-now-a-reality\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief DARPA has created self-steering bullets which use a real-time optical guidance system to hit both moving and accelerating targets with high accuracy. You may have seen the movie Wanted. Sure, the movie was almost unrecognizable from the Mark Millar comic book series it was very loosely based on. But that didn\u2019t stop anyone [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33135","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37831,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33135\/revisions\/37831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}