{"id":22256,"date":"2011-02-11T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22256"},"modified":"2011-02-11T15:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:36:29","slug":"mr-taliban-meet-mr-punisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22256","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Taliban, meet Mr. Punisher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picked this up at Ace of Spades<\/a>; apparently the XM-25 has been used in Afghanistan<\/a> to some success since November and the Army wants more;<\/p>\n

“We disrupted two insurgents on an OP (observation point) and we silenced two machine-gun positions — two PKM positions,” said Lt. Col. Chris Lehner, Product Manager Individual Weapons for Project Manager Soldier Weapons at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., describing some of the scenarios he witnessed in theater where the XM25 had been used. “We destroyed four ambush locations, where the survivors fled.”<\/p>\n

“And when we launched it at a longer range target, who was carrying a machine gun and it exploded near his target — it either badly wounded him or scared him good enough that he dropped his machine gun and ran away,” Lehner recounted.<\/p>\n

Overall in Afghanistan, the five XM25s have been with two separate units. The first unit used the weapon on four engagements and fired 28 rounds in combat. The second unit was able to use the XM25 on five engagements and fired 27 rounds in combat.<\/p>\n

“The troops are very excited to carry it,” Conley said. “We’ve limited who can carry it based on the number of folks that we’ve trained. But within that group of Soldiers that are trained on the operation of the XM25, I heard a Soldier say ‘hey, he carried it yesterday, so I get it today.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kit Up<\/a> records a conversation;<\/p>\n

There\u2019s certainly some posturing and whatnot between the Soldiers to try to get to carry it. We trained a guy on Christmas and he was literally thanking me saying \u201cWow, this is the best Christmas ever!\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like I said in my first post about it, every soldier can be a Bradley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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