New XM25 Grenade Launcher Announced by US Military

[Persona Facade]

Recently, in fact according to some sources just today, the US Military's new XM25 Grenade Launcher has been announced as entering service in Afghanistan. This new weapon will likely revolutionize the way Urban and in the case of Afghanistan at times 'cave' warfare is fought.

What makes this weapon so revolutionary is its ability to trace the distance to a target and allow the operator to detonate the launched shell at the specified distance. This can be applied to a variety of situations: enemy gunners inside bunkers, behind sandbags, in cover behind a wall. The XM25 Grenade Launcher will help to ensure US dominance in Urban Warfare and minimize collateral damage, fairly ironic considering it is a grenade launcher.

The XM25 will make taking down bogey's without harming civilians and minimize collateral damage, fairly ironic considering it is a grenade launcher. For those interested in more readings I have compiled some relevant and easy to read articles below:

US Army http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/11/10/30147-army-testing-xm-25-smart-high-explosive-weapon-for-soldiers/


The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/xm25-supergun-that-shoots-round-corners-goes-to-us-troops-in-afghanistan/story-e6frg8yo-1225964999015


CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20024281-503543.html


Puffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/30/xm25-smart-gun-unveiled-by-us-military_n_789969.html


PS-(Please excuse my hyper links I am unaware of how it is possible to make just the selected words the link; it has been awhile since I have posted on forums with the purposes of linking.)

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Oh, good.  A new weapon I can't own.

[Persona Facade]

Oh, good.  A new weapon I can't own.

Learn how to construct your own and hope it is not confiscated and you don't get arrested?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Oh, good.  A new weapon I can't own.

Learn how to construct your own and hope it is not confiscated and you don't get arrested?

Why, yes, I could design the required electronics in a mere 50 years or so.

[Requia ☣]

Uh... Urban, grenade launcher?  I guess the thing is better than firing mortars into a city, but I don't see this having a happy ending.

[Persona Facade]

Uh... Urban, grenade launcher?  I guess the thing is better than firing mortars into a city, but I don't see this having a happy ending.

The military already uses grenade launchers in urban warfare, most notably as offhand attachments on mainline firearms (M4, M16, Scar-L/H), models such as the M203. This is merely a more controlled explosion for diffusing dangerous situations as quickly as possible; it just happens to implement a dangerous ordnance as a solution to this problem.

This is merely a cheaper and more effective than relying solely on armored support in order to take down barricaded enemies and other enemies with positions that would otherwise require troops to enter harms way or endanger civilians by any other means.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This is merely a cheaper and more effective than relying solely on armored support in order to take down barricaded enemies and other enemies with positions that would otherwise require troops to enter harms way or endanger civilians by any other means.

No.  It's not.

[Persona Facade]

This is merely a cheaper and more effective than relying solely on armored support in order to take down barricaded enemies and other enemies with positions that would otherwise require troops to enter harms way or endanger civilians by any other means.

No.  It's not.

Elaborate.

[Don Coyote]

Oh, good.  A new weapon I can't own.

Learn how to construct your own and hope it is not confiscated and you don't get arrested?

Why, yes, I could design the required electronics in a mere 50 years or so.

Man I said something retarded like this when I got here. 

[Golden Applesauce]

Oh, good.  A new weapon I can't own.

Learn how to construct your own and hope it is not confiscated and you don't get arrested?

Why, yes, I could design the required electronics in a mere 50 years or so.

Man I said something retarded like this when I got here. 

And I still think you're a moron normal person for no other reason.

[Persona Facade]

Well it is true, if you dedicate your time and gather enough people you could possibly construct your own.
It is by no means impossible, just impractical and pointless.

[Don Coyote]

Well it is true, if you dedicate your time and gather enough people you could possibly construct your own.
It is by no means impossible, just impractical and pointless.

Much like your comment that he should construct his own.

[Persona Facade]

Well it is true, if you dedicate your time and gather enough people you could possibly construct your own.
It is by no means impossible, just impractical and pointless.

Much like your comment that he should construct his own.

First I never said he should, I said he could.
Second your posts merely detract from the thread's topic. You can say mine are the same in your next post, but will it make anything you state matter anymore or be any more important?
I think not.

I suppose some people need the /sarcasm added at the end of a sentence to detect it. I assumed the readers here would find the sarcasm of my comment was implied.

[Kansai]

Fool your friends into thinking that their neighborhood is safe with the new XM25 Grenade Launcher.  It's super-neat.  Weapons of mass destruction should make way for this piece of shit.  Personally, I feel that this device, although being a support-based weapon, be a resource guzzler considering the fact that grenades and the power source must be replenished at various intervals.  The cost of artillery may be minimal at the start, but could eventually lead to financial trouble for the US.  Then again, this is under the assumption that mass production is considered and applied.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This is merely a cheaper and more effective than relying solely on armored support in order to take down barricaded enemies and other enemies with positions that would otherwise require troops to enter harms way or endanger civilians by any other means.

No.  It's not.

Elaborate.

Can the grenade launcher push aside a barricade, knock a building over, advance on a machine gun position inside a building, or shelter a squad behind it for an advance?

Fact1 :  The morons in the Pentagon and the DoD keep trying to do everything on the cheap.  Add in a sexy high tech grenade launcher, they can justify using less armor.

Fact 2:  High tech sexiness is 20th century thinking.  Wars are won now based on endurance and birthrate...in short, on economics.  How long does it take to train an American soldier to use this launcher, as opposed to the 15 minutes it takes to train an insurgent on a perfectly good $50 RPG7 (Gary Brecher has the RPG7 as the all time best bang-for-buck weapon in history, and I tend to agree)?