PULVERDAMPF

Von Tamfeld hat geschrieben:http://www.economist.com/node/21542716

Kurzer Auszug:

The XM25, as the new gun is known, weighs about 6kg (13lb) and fires a 25mm round. The trick is that instead of having to be aimed directly at the target, this round need only be aimed at a place in proximity to it. Once there, it explodes—just like Shrapnel’s original artillery shells—and the fragments kill the enemy. It knows when to explode because of a timed fuse. In Shrapnel’s shells this fuse was made of gunpowder. In the XM25 it is a small computer inside the bullet that monitors details of the projectile’s flight.

Von Tamfeld hat geschrieben:Net wirklich - ich geh mal davon aus das so ein Geschoß gleich die ganze Tafel schrottet...

Wie zählst das dann?

gibts die auch als .22er

The “One Shot” program originally aimed to give snipers the power to hit a target from 2000 meters away in winds as high as 40 miles per hour. In the first phases of the 3-year-old program, shooters used prototype rifles dressed with lasers and fancy computer hardware to do damage from 1,100 meters away in 18-mile-an-hour winds. The scope-mounted lasers can “see” wind turbulence in the path of the bullet and feed the data to computers, enabling real-time calculation of — and compensation for — the wind-blown trajectory.

The program is just one of several high-tech hardware upgrades the U.S. military is pursuing for its snipers. Plans are also in place to make bullets that can change course in mid-air and a stealth sniper scope that would make shooters all but invisible.

With luck, Darpa will have its new supersniper rifles by the fall of 2011.

Der US-Hersteller TrackingPoint produziert etwa ein Jagdgewehr, das über ein komplexes Zielsuchsystem auf Linux-Basis verfügt. Die "Precision Guided Firearm" ermöglicht es damit selbst Laien, auf Distanzen bis zu einem Kilometer ein Ziel genau zu treffen

We were plinking targets with $17,000+ Linux-powered hunting rifles, made by a small Austin company called TrackingPoint. Earlier this year, Ars reported on TrackingPoint's "Precision Guided Firearm" at CES,