{"id":3626,"date":"2009-04-15T21:50:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T04:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2009-04-15T21:50:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T04:50:02","slug":"fire-and-forget-gun-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/fire-and-forget-gun-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"fire and forget gun speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent skirmish at sea that resulted in three synchronized deaths of Somali pirates at the trigger-fingers of US Navy SEAL snipers has lead to an increase of awareness in current gun development, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1891348,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent article at TIME<\/a> which features this nifty bit of lingo. They&#8217;re describing the nature of a gun whose bullets the sniper can essentially &#8220;fire and forget&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>fin-stabilized projectiles, spin-stabilized projectiles, internal and\/or external aero-actuation control methods, projectile guidance technologies, tamper proofing, small stable power supplies, and advanced sighting, optical resolution and clarity technologies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They immediately follow saying the bullet,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>once fired at a specific target, fly themselves into it by changing shape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wowee!<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent skirmish at sea that resulted in three synchronized deaths of Somali pirates at the trigger-fingers of US Navy SEAL snipers has lead to an increase of awareness in current gun development, including a recent article at TIME which features this nifty bit of lingo. They&#8217;re describing the nature of a gun whose bullets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[577,579,578],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gun","tag-pirate","tag-sniper"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-Wu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}