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DARPA Exploring Development of 50-Caliber Smart Bullet

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Monday, December 3rd, 2007

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to host an industry day on an exploratory development program aimed at developing a highly accurate 50-caliber bullet at long distances against moving targets. DARPA says the EXACTO program has two components. The first is to develop a guidance system that provides information to direct the projectile to the target and second to develop an actively controlled projectile that uses this information for real-time directional flight control, according to a Nov. 26…

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