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You've got to love endless budgets and the possibilities that provides, for better or worse. Tracking individual bullets flying through a warzone? Impossible? Not anymore.

The US Military has developed the technology to accurately detect and tract flying bullets, a system which will likely be used in the advanced "active defense" systems which are undergoing development at the moment. These systems are to be deployed around high risk areas, or vehicle mounted systems to protect patrols.

The idea behind these is simple - identify bullets or other incoming munitions, and interrupt the flight path with shrapnel to defend the intended target from being hit.

What this new bullet tracking technology allows is a far far greater accuracy, both at a distance and up close.

There are some amazing technologies being released at the moment.

One such invention to recently be released was Samsungs armed robotic sentry. The South Korean automated robotic sentries, armed with automatic weapons, can identify moving human targets at a great distance, and will challenge the person to immediately stop, disarm, and raise their hands until border soldiers arrive to deal with them. If these orders are not met, the sentry can respond with tear gas, rubber bullets, or live rounds. One thing I noticed from watching the robots demonstration video was that the sentry constantly maintains a headshot target as well as the general human target box around the individual. Nasty.