Now, laser-guided bullet that steers itself to its target

London, Jan 31 (ANI): The US government has developed a self steering bullet that can sense a laser spot on the target from more than a kilometre away, and then go straight into it.

This kind of bullet can especially come in handy in case a target has moved after the shot being fired.

Engineers at the Sandia National Laboratories, who invented the bullet, have attached a laser sensor to its nose. The bullet has been enabled to steer itself through the air, and the sensor is able to guide it to the area marked by the laser, the New Scientist reported.

To test whether the sensor can withstand the impact of the bullet being fired, scientists attached a brightly lit LED on its tip and fired it. The LED remained lit during its trajectory, indicating that the sensors within in the bullet could withstand the impact.

Sandia Laboratories has filed a patent for their laser-guided ammunition.

"Computer simulations showed an unguided bullet under real-world conditions could miss a target more than 1,000 metres away by nine metres, but a guided bullet would get within 0.2 metres," it said. (ANI)