Microprocessor in each pool

The military does not abandon attempts to create a weapon that would solve one of the most important tasks in battle - defeat an enemy who is not in direct view, but sits in a trench or hid around the corner.

The next ingenious device was invented by engineers of Alliant Techsystems on the order of the US Army: this is a 25 mm XM25 rifle, in which each bullet is equipped with a microprocessor, a radio receiver and an electromagnetic sensor. The radio bullet receives information about the number of meters that it needs to fly. And with the help of an electromagnetic sensor, it counts the number of revolutions made around its axis in the electromagnetic field of the Earth. Calculate the distance by the number of revolutions and detonate at the right time - this is already a trivial task.


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The cost of each bullet with a microprocessor is about $ 25.

Field tests of the rifle will be held in the very near future in Iraq or Afghanistan, and if successful, their delivery into service with the XM25 will begin in 2012.

Unfortunately, the invention of Alliant Techsystems is patented , so that the Russian army has no right to implement such technologies in its weapons, because it violates international copyright agreements.

via New Scientist