New Smart Tank Round Being Developed

Last week, the Army conducted a full test of the Mid-Range Munition, a "smart" 120-mm cannon round. It's part of a push to give tank gunners the same kind of precision that artillery crews have with munitions like the Excalibur, an extended-range, precision guided 155-mm artillery round that has seen service in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Here's the concept: The Mid-Range Munition pops out small "wings" in flight; the round can then be guided to a target with a laser designator, or it can be fired in the general direction of the target and the infrared seeker will guide it home. In theory, this would for the first time give tank gunners an "indirect fire" capability, meaning that they could hit a target, say, on the other side of a hill with the aid of a spotter.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/the-little-tank.html

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