Since the dawn of modern warfare, the best way to stay alive in the face of incoming fire has been to take cover behind a wall. But thanks to a game-changing “revolutionary” rifle, the U.S. Army has made that tactic dead on arrival. Now the enemy can run, but he can’t hide.
After years of development, the U.S. Army has unleashed a new weapon in Afghanistan — the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System, a high-tech rifle that can be programmed so that its 25-mm. ammunition does not necessarily explode on impact. Instead, it can be set to detonate either in front of or behind a target, meaning it literally will go through a wall before it explodes and kills the enemy.
It also has a range of roughly 2,300 feet — nearly the length of eight football fields — making it possible to fire at targets well past the range of the rifles and carbines that most soldiers carry today.
In the Marines, they like to say that every Marine is an infantryman. Now, in the Army, they can say that every infantryman is a Bradley.
Nice…..I’ll take 2…
so you’re telling me that i can kill zombies at over 1,000yds through a wall? hell ya!!!
Is it wrong that I feel sexually aroused by that thing? It is? Well then if that’s wrong I don’t want to be right.
Sweeeet!!!!!
Wait, IS it effective on zombies?
@ROS
did you watch the video? that shrapnel would pulverise a zombie’s head…don’t ruin my dream.
I don’t expect to see this popping up on a shelf at Kittery Trading Post anytime soon, but when it does, I’ll be there, drooling…
Christmas is coming up very soon, so if you guys still haven’t figured out what to get me……your choices are between this and an AA12. Just so you know.
Pop culture trivia time. Anybody remember a movie starring Gene Simmons and Tom Selleck called “Runaway”?
You betcha, he hunted down runaway robots and Gene (Dr. Luther) programmed them to be homicidal.
You are refering to the homing bullets that explode of course…
Again, Sweeeeet!
Totally.
And my 15-year-old is obsessed with the AA12. Ugh.
Bet it’ll be a bitch to hump.
“Bet it’ll be a bitch to hump.” The weapon, not so much. The ammo probably. I still want one. Perfect weapon for killin “Posties”. Anyone?
I saw this on “FutureWeapons” on the Military Channel at least two years ago when it was still in development. I remember thinking “oooohhhhh, that’s gonna suck for the badguys”.
Dirty Al- i got you…just got done re-reading the series again…great books!