Smart rifle with jet fighter 'lock and launch' targeting tech
Credit: TrackingPoint  The days of needing actual shooting
skills are over. Firearm company TrackingPoint has developed a
software that is integrated with its Precision Guided Firearms
(PGF) to provide shooters with near perfect accuracy. Named "Tag
Track Xact" or TTX, the advanced target-tracking technology (say
that three times fast!) delivers on-point shots over a range of
1,200 yards, or about the length of 22 Olympic swimming pools.
In order to provide an exact, accurate shot, TTX accounts for
the coriolis effect, magnus, temperature, pressure and spin
drift when aimed at the target. The software is displayed
through TrackingPoint's Integrated Networked Tracking Scope,
which also houses a compass, microphone, Wi-Fi server,
batteries, ballistic calculator, laser rangefinder and filters
for shooting in bright or dim light.  Three Steps To Total
Annihilation  In conjunction with the firearm's guided trigger,
TTX works in three steps: Tag, Track