US military unveils 'smart gun'

Neat. We always come up with better ways of killing people.

I hope there is a built in safety that prevents a fly going in front of the laser making the round go off a meter after it leaves the gun instead of 200 meters

I do not understand how the exploding round get fired at the desired distance ?

If you have a known distance and a known muzzle velocity it shouldn't be too hard to have it detonate over the target.

If you have a known distance and a known muzzle velocity it shouldn't be too hard to have it detonate over the target.
But how ? The rounds are all the same. They all travel at the same speed. Are you saying each round are "timed" to detonate before every shot ?

If you have a known distance and a known muzzle velocity it shouldn't be too hard to have it detonate over the target.
But how ? The rounds are all the same. They all travel at the same speed. Are you saying each round are "timed" to detonate before every shot ?
Sounds like it, the gun takes the distance and with a pre-determined algorithm figures out travel time to explosion, and then you fire.

But how ? The rounds are all the same. They all travel at the same speed. Are you saying each round are "timed" to detonate before every shot ?
Sounds like it, the gun takes the distance and with a pre-determined algorithm figures out travel time to explosion, and then you fire.

They use laser much like those in the binoculars that are used, it finds the distance within milliseconds and sets the round to explode at that distance. That's why the sight has 2 optics on it, one sight aperture and one laser range finder.

Best of all, each round is a mere $83 million and they toss in a free $1700 Allen wrench to open the packing case!

Hope they're better than the 'smart' bombs... cuz they aint so smart.

So, the round explodes "X" milliseconds after it is triggered. The gun calculates the distance with the laser, figures the time the bullet will take to get to the target, subtracts that time from "X" making "delta Y" milliseconds. So the gun triggers the round, wait "delta Y" milliseconds and then hit the primer to fire the round.

Am I getting it right ?

Aaaah it's a grenade launcher... that makes more sense ,,,, I've read too quickly

AK -47 forever