Tuesday, April 19, 2011
What you see pictured above is a new revolutionary bullet which can be pre-programmed to explode to hit troops that are hiding behind walls, in protective trenches etc.
This bullet is part of the new XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System pictured below which has a range of approximately 2,300 feet. It is scheduled to be deployed in Afghanistan this month.
The rifle's gun sight uses a laser rangefinder to determine the exact distance to an obstruction or barrier hiding enemy troops, 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 rather than into the barrier or obstruction. According to the Daily Mail:
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 gun sight as to the precise distance to the target.
Lt. Col. Christopher Lehner, project manager for the system, describes 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.
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.'
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 occasionally.
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..
We have heard this before when tasers were first tested in Iraq and then modified for domestic use with local police departments against Americans.
This past June a US Department of Justice (DOJ) report found that "a significant number" of individuals have died following exposure to the Taser, and "the Justice Department concerns bolster what Amnesty International has been saying for years," says DaNa Mashad, Director of Domestic Human Rights for AIUSA. "More data is needed. When police use Tasers on vulnerable populations, the true impact is simply unknown.
"This is cause for alarm."
Labels: Non lethal weapons development., The New World Order, Weapons
