Shachtman has such a great eye for this stuff:
Precision mortars and artillery shells have the potential to change the battlefield just as much as satellite- and laser-guided bombs did — maybe more. Those munitions are deep into testing. So Darpa, naturally, wants to take the next step, by developing a hand-held, steerable, flying mini-bomb that an infantryman can use to blow up just about anyone in a two kilometer range.The project is called Close Combat Lethal Recon, or CCLR. And Darpa was kind enough to put together a handy promotional vid, to show us how it works. (Don’t let the off-tempo, forced-cheery, robo-voiced narration creep you out too bad.)
So now the bad guys can look forward to our boys whupping their ass with a PSP.
This sounds like what the Mobile Infantry carried in Starship Troopers, the book not the horrible movie.
Sweet Jebus that’s cool.
Maybe we just start with replacing the 5.56 with something that kills the enemy. Like a 6.8.
With the new battery technology and miniturazation of transmit/recieve/propulsion components it is possible to manufacture these devices to carry a lethal payload of ~ 1 lb, more depending on wing area, with flight times in excess of 10 min. The noise profile of the electric motor/prop is small enough to where it would not be noticed.
Go out to a nearby RC airfeild and observer any of the electric RTF planes and ask yourself how hard would it be to add a camera and a small payload for a one way trip.
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