XM-25's are going to the battle field

[ericire12]

http://www.military.com/news/article/army-to-test-game-changing-gun-in-combat.html?wh=news

ABERDEEN TEST CENTER, Md. -- The Army is set to send its high-tech "counter defilade" weapon to the war zone in the next few months, the first real-world deployment for the much-anticipated XM-25 Individual Airburst Weapon.
 
Officials announced May 5 that a group of Army Special Forces Soldiers will take the weapon with them to Afghanistan sometime this summer.

Afghanistan veterans who fired the weapon for the first time this week predicted it would be a "game changing" weapon, a gun that can engage Taliban insurgents using distant ridge-tops, thick mud walls and tree lines as cover.

"It brings, right now, organic to the squad, the capability to defeat targets that we're seeing everyday in Afghanistan -- targets that we can't currently hit," said Col. Doug Tamilio, project manager for Soldier weapons with the Army's Program Executive Office Soldier. "It will save Soldiers' lives, because now they can take out those targets."
 
While labeled a grenade launcher, the XM-25 is much more than that, Army officials say. It's a precision direct, and indirect, fire weapon system that combines an array of sophisticated sensors, lasers and optics with a microchip-embedded 25mm high explosive round.

*Video at the link

[Hazcat]

WOW!  You can even program the round right from the grip!  Looks like a VERY useful weapon.

[Solus]

Sounds like a very nice update to the COFRAM artillery shells used back in the late 60s...

Nothing like having that capability in the next foxhole.

[TAB]

if that actually works, it will turn any cover in to concealment.

[twyacht]

and the civilian model is available when???

I'll take one please, .........unless billt already has one,..

[Sponsor]

[m25operator]

Hey Mom, lets sell the house in the Catskills, then I can get one, with a few hundred rds of ammo, then I can be

XM25OPERATOR.

[twyacht]

Hey Mom, lets sell the house in the Catskills, then I can get one, with a few hundred rds of ammo, then I can be

XM25OPERATOR.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

 

+1 

[fightingquaker13]

Hey Mom, lets sell the house in the Catskills, then I can get one, with a few hundred rds of ammo, then I can be

XM25OPERATOR.

But they will never ever, ever, be able to steal the Mortal Kombat, while hiding behing the Orange Julius! Seriously, I saw something like this on Future Weapons, and damn! The day you can't hide behind a brick wall anymore is the day when the grunt goes the way of the horses. Only question is how much is the shell made by microsoft?
FQ13, who doesn't think you can reload these at home

[Fatman]

ft?
FQ13, who doesn't think you can reload these at home

Until the Chinese are given the technology and mass market components for sale here.