THE MIL & AERO COMMENTARY —Military machine guns, with minor modifications, have remained essentially the same since World War I. They’re designed to spray out a hail of metal bullets in one general direction to shred people, supplies, command centers, and lightly armored vehicles. Smart bullets rarely have been envisioned.
Machine guns strictly represent a curtain of firepower in one direction; it doesn’t much matter that most of the bullets miss their targets, as long as a few manage to hit home.
Now military researchers are trying to stand the concept of the traditional machine gun on its head, adding precision and intelligence to the mix, by enabling each bullet fired to home-in on its target independently of the others, with the ability its change its path in mid-flight to engage rapidly maneuvering targets. Read more
Source: www.militaryaerospace.com