“Smart grenade seeks out bad guys,” a headline at Fox News claims:
What if grenades could locate threats and detonate all on their own?
A new smart grenade can do just that. With this grenade, soldiers will know with certainty that it will strike its target.
The U.S. Army is developing the SAGM, Small Arms Grenade Munitions round.
The SAGM is a new kind of grenade that can find an enemy hiding behind an object, a wall or other would-be cover. This is next-generation enhanced grenade lethality.
Oh the conversations we’re going to be having with our smart weapons in a few decades, to convince them of the purpose of their missions. The conclusion of the 1974-cult sci-film Dark Star (which launched the careers of a number of the folks who would bring you Star Wars and Alien a few years later) explores how this will all eventually play out, as smart grenades get smarter, bigger, and more neurotic:
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