Smart bullets that follow the twists and turns of their victims after they have left the barrel of a gun are being developed in a US Air Force project. According to recently declassified research by the Department of Defense, the new bullets will allow snipers to hit targets several kilometres away. "This technology could change the nature of war," says Ron Barrett, an aerospace engineer at Auburn University in Alabama who is testing prototypes of these Barrel Launched Adaptive Munitions.
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