Feb 142011
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/02/army-xm25-punisher-battlefield-test-021411w/
Five prototypes of this 25-mm semi-automatic, laser range finding, air bursting weapons were sent to Afghanistan in November, 2010. The result: a lot of scared-poopless Taliban and Army units that don’t want to give it back.
There are a few problems:
1) The battery life is apparently too short
2) The cost of the weapon itself is $35,000 (around 200 to 500 ti
3) The cost of the ammo is $1000 per *round*, though it’ll drop to $35 after the ammo goes into full production
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It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase: Get off my lawn.
Does it come with a “Happy Fun Ball” round?
I’m glad to see they finally got it into action; it’s a real ass-kicker of a weapon.
Incredible indirect fire weapon. Doesn’t matter if the target is lurking behind a wall. It lobs a laser guided round to a position *above* the target, then air bursts downward.
One thing they said it could do when first developed is kill specific people while leaving those nearby unharmed.
If it’s still using the original fusing system you have the option of having the grenade detonate just in front of the laser ranged target, at the same range as the target, or just beyond the designated target (like the behind the wall or tree scenario); you can switch between these with a single finger while still aiming the weapon. Lethal radius of the grenade is kept fairly low so that you could theoretically have a target who is holding hostages behind him, set the grenade to detonate just in front of him, and use his own body as a shield to protect the hostages from being injured.
If he’s using the hostages as a human shield, you set the grenade to detonate behind him, again using his body as a shield.
SWAT teams are going to love these gizmos.
Can it stop car bombs?
>SWAT teams are going to love these gizmos.<
If I can't have things like this then the cops don't need it.
One thing about cop weapons is that they don’t have to meet the rules of the Geneva Conventions that are applied in military combat ammunition.
Dum-dum rounds, poisoned rounds, explosive rounds, and anything else you can come up with are perfectly legal if used by cops internally in a nation.
How would you like to be the doctor who has to deal with the wound caused by a police favorite, the Glaser Safety Slug?:
http://www.10-32supply.com/firearms/ammo/glaser_safety_slugs.htm
Have fun digging the several hundred tiny pellets out of the wound the bullet causes: http://www.firearmstactical.com/images/Wound%20Profiles/357%20Magnum%20Glaser.jpg
How is Glaser any worse than shotguns that are legal for police and the public to use? Or is it that when police have something it is bad? The idea that killing or badly wounding a person with one gun is illegal but a different gun and it is legal, seems a bit silly to me. As if even chemical weapons are somehow more cruel than regular explosives and bullets.
Yes the police can have, by international law, explosive rounds, poisoned rounds, etc. But do you think they will?