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Sandia National Lab Patents Self-Guided Bullet, Seeks Company Partner

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

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Two Sandia National Laboratories engineers have invented and patented a self-guided bullet that could help warfighters, and now want a private company partner to complete prototype testing and bring a guided bullet to market. “We have a very promising technology to guide small projectiles that could be fully developed inexpensively and rapidly,” researcher Red Jones said. Jones, Brian Kast and their colleagues have invented a dart-like, self-guided bullet for small-caliber, smooth-bore firearms that could hit laser-designated targets at distances of…

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