XM25 Air Burst Weapon

[Twitchin Kitten]

0

OK ignoring the reporter being a total moron - this is a cool weapon we'll have soon for our soldiers. Lookit the damn kickback!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh4uy5A-lI


Story: http://militarytimes.com/blogs/gearscout...downrange/

[twisteroo]

0

I dunno, with guys like this do we really need it?

The douchebag reporter actually had the balls to use his college football days in a comparison.

A BRITISH Army sniper has set a new sharpshooting distance record by killing two Taliban machinegunners in Afghanistan from more than a mile away.

Craig Harrison, a member of the Household Cavalry, killed the insurgents with consecutive shots — even though they were 3,000ft beyond the most effective range of his rifle.

“The first round hit a machinegunner in the stomach and killed him outright,” said Harrison, a Corporal of Horse. “He went straight down and didn’t move.

“The second insurgent grabbed the weapon and turned as my second shot hit him in the side. He went down, too. They were both dead.”

The shooting — which took place while Harrison’s colleagues came under attack — was at such extreme range that the 8.59mm bullets took almost three seconds to reach their target after leaving the barrel of the rifle at almost three times the speed of sound.

The distance to Harrison’s two targets was measured by a GPS system at 8,120ft, or 1.54 miles. The previous record for a sniper kill is 7,972ft, set by a Canadian soldier who shot dead an Al-Qaeda gunman in March 2002.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo...113916.ece

[Twitchin Kitten]

0

Nice shooting! Although these guys are accurate, they can't do this fast and furious and kill all of the assholes. It would be nice though - just hide and hit them as they pass by.

Yeah, that reporter is a total twat. - football! No wonder.... the guy's a meathead and that Colonel showing the weapon probably wanted to try it on him!

[twisteroo]

0

You remember those guys that killed the pirates, 3 head shots from moving ship to moving life raft or whatever it was. Those guys can shoot.

[Twitchin Kitten]

0

Navy SEALS! Matt's step dad is/was a SEAL.