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radio-controlled smart bullets - Ed Jewett - 30-11-2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
No hiding place from new U.S. Army rifles that use radio-controlled smart bullets
By Daily Mail Reporter at dailymail.co.uk
- Weapon hailed as a game-changer that can fire up and over barriers and down into trenches
- Soldiers will start using them in Afghanistan later this month
The XM25 rifle uses bullets that be programmed to explode when they have travelled a set distance, allowing enemies to be targeted no matter where they are hiding.
The rifle also has a range of 2,300 feet making it possible to hit target which are well out of the reach of conventional rifles.
The XM25 is being developed specially for the U.S.
army and will be deployed with troops from later this month, it was revealed today.
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The XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System has a range of roughly 2,300 feet - and is to be deployed in Afghanistan this month
The rifle's gunsight uses a laser rangefinder to determine the exact distance to the obstruction, after which the soldier can add or subtract up to 3 metres from that distance to enable the bullets to clear the barrier and explode above or beside the target.
Soldiers will be able to use them to target snipers hidden in trenches rather than calling in air strikes.
The 25-millimetre round contains a chip that receives a radio signal from the gunsight as to the precise distance to the target.
Lt. Col. Christopher Lehner, project manager for the system, described the weapon as a ‘game-changer’ that other nations will try and copy.
He expects the Army to buy 12,500 of the XM25 rifles this year, enough for every member of the infantry and special forces.
Lehner told FoxNews: ‘With this weapon system, we take away cover from [enemy targets] forever.
‘Tactics are going to have to be rewritten. The only thing we can see [enemies] being able to do is run away.’
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Experts say the rifle means that enemy troops will no longer be safe if they take cover
The XM25 appears perfect weapon for
street-to-street fighting that troops in Afghanistan have to engage in,
with enemy fighters hiding behind walls and only breaking cover to fire
ocasionally.
The weapon's laser finder would work
out how far away the enemy was and then the U.S. soldier would add one
metre using a button near the trigger. When fired, the explosive round
would carry exactly one metre past the wall and explode with the force
of a hand grenade above the Taliban fighter.
The army's project manager for new weapons, Douglas Tamilio, said: ''This is the first leap-ahead technology for troops that we've been able to develop and deploy.'
A patent granted to the bullet's maker, Alliant Techsystems, reveals that the chip can calculate how far it has travelled.
Mr Tamilio said: 'You could shoot a Javelin missile, and it would cost £43,000. These rounds will end up costing £15.50 apiece. They're relatively cheap.
Lehner added: ‘This is a game-changer. The enemy has learned to get cover, for hundreds if not thousands of years.
‘Well, they can't do that anymore. We're taking that cover from them and there's only two outcomes: We're going to get you behind that cover or force you to flee.’
The rifle will initially use high-explosive rounds, but its makers say that it might later use versions with smaller explosive charges that aim to stun rather than kill.
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One of the revolutionary bullets which can be pre-programmed to explode to hit troops that are hiding
http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-hiding-place-from-new-us-army-rifles.html
radio-controlled smart bullets - Keith Millea - 01-12-2010
Quote:The rifle will initially use high-explosive rounds, but its makers say that it might later use versions with smaller explosive charges that aim to stun rather than kill.
I think that means "coming soon to police forces NEAR YOU"!
POSITIVELY STUNNING REVELATION
radio-controlled smart bullets - Bernice Moore - 01-12-2010
''the weapon as a ‘game-changer’ that other nations will try and will copy.
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radio-controlled smart bullets - David Guyatt - 01-12-2010
I've been waiting for this to come about for years. It was the obvious next step for small arms. The company who makes the rounds are going to make a fortune. An ordinary .225 round is probably less than $1 (can't find prices online so can't be sure this is correct but it will be close, I think). The ammunition for the new round is $15.50.
War is profit.
radio-controlled smart bullets - Peter Lemkin - 01-12-2010
Absolutely disgusting anti-human and thanototic use of technology and science. It is now clear to me that humans will be the cause [very, VERY soon] of their own demise - taking along most of the rest of life. A very pathological and toxic species - at least those scum who rise to the top and control things. With these and killer drones and a few other technologies, the Gestapo need not leave their barracks. They simply program one weapon or another to kill Mr. or Ms. X and minutes later it is done. No trial, no having to account. It is genocide, one body at a time....this time the 'group' being attacked is not defined ethnically or culturally, but politically.