The Future is Now! Homing Bullets Patented!

[ShindoL Shill]

stuff thats not going to kill us all

an AI in your home...like EDI from mass effect, you can talk to it

i read a cracked article that mentioned some guy who did that... but a perfected, commercial one would be good.

 

[Valthek]

Yay, now people can kil eachother more efficiently... *sigh*

as for the question: ShadowRun, everything in it.

 

[theheroofaction]

Not to be a total killjoy, but these do the opposite of what you guys are thinking.

Homing weapons are used to make something shoot someplace other than where you aim it.

This is something to solve that major problem that is that high powered weapons don't shoot where you aim them.

 

[SilentCom]

If the US military would adopt a rifle that doesn't foul itself by directing all the gas from each round back into the chamber that would be awesome.

I would prefer seeing laser guns... You know the pew pew is a much cooler futuristic gun anyways.

OT: Guided bullets? Now people can complain aim hax in real life.

 

[II2]

Do you think anyone but me has realized that if they worked to make guns less accurate instead of more accurate then there would be less deaths in the world?

Tell that to Genghis Khan.

Jokes aside, it wouldn't reduce the number of deaths, just up the ante on the munition expenditure and make warfare that much more expensive, for the same results.

 

[gigastrike]

Sounds more like something they'll give to snipers than general infantry or even tank-mounted machine guns. Probably isn't going to change general warfare much.

 

[WolfThomas]

They don't seem to be that great an idea, the majority of bullets used in war is for suppression, they seem to work fine as is.

 

[Thaluikhain]

True, Still it depresses me when I see people developing new weapons.. i'm not a big fan of killing because of greed and disagreements... The cold war could have been avoided completely if they just didn't develop bombs of that size...

Yeah, they could have a hot war instead.

It's all very well and good to sya people shouldn't be spending money on fancy new weapons, but that only works if everyone decides not to do it. As long as somebody does, everyone else has to.

 

[Esotera]

So this isn't outlawed by the Geneva convention, but certain calibres of bullets are? I was under the impression that soldiers relied more on calling in air support these days if they wanted precision, but I guess every tool helps.

 

[Thaluikhain]

So this isn't outlawed by the Geneva convention, but certain calibres of bullets are? I was under the impression that soldiers relied more on calling in air support these days if they wanted precision, but I guess every tool helps.

What calibre bullets are banned by the Geneva conventions?

And...what has air support got to do with precision? Is it not more generally called in the same way you'd use artillery?

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Would the targetting laser on this actually be attached to a weapon? I could imagine one person with the laser and another firing in the general area, but having them two attached to each other might have problems.

 

[Fatboy_41]

Stepping away from the warfare aspect here, this could do wonders for policing/SWAT style operations. One of the biggest worries in those situations, especially is hostages are involved, is collateral damage. The ability to have a round make minute corrections mid-flight could mean the difference between a successful operation and a dead hostage or civilian.

 

[michael87cn]

Nothing good can come of this. Also, won't happen.

Missiles aren't equal to bullets. Homing Missiles aren't cheap. Bullets are. Homing bullets won't be cheap. Homing bullets won't become common.

Also, if they DO. I call the "its not my fault my bullet killed the wrong person, it was DEFECTIVE" Bs now.

 

[The Funslinger]

"What is your biggest hope for future tech that seems reasonably plausible to be invented in the near future?"

Some sort of device that stops idiots inventing homing-bullets.

Indeed. It'll turn all warfare into full on butchery. Casualties on both sides will sky-rocket with the "if we fire first, we can't lose!" fashion of thinking, and they're actually taking the skill out of marksmanship.

This pisses me off on so many levels. It better turn out to be a shit idea that goes nowhere.

I will reduce us back to the WWI level of warefare, both sides will dig in to such an extent that they have to charge the other side in mass numbers to counter the superior weapons fire; in the case of WWI it was the machine gun, now it's homing bullets.

Also they're fifty cal rounds, not many mobile infantry weapons use fifty cal rounds. so the chance of an infantryman coming into contact with one of those bad boys is pretty low unless they're fighting crazy prepared people.

Yeah, 50 cal is how it starts. This technology would obviously progress. It's the start of something bad to my mind.