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US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-even-have-this-in-video-games dept.

rbrander writes "Don't call it a 'rifle,' call it the 'XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System' and get your $35,000 worth. Much more than a projector of high-speed lead, this device hurls small grenades that automatically detonate in mid-flight with 1-meter accuracy over nearly 800m. The vital field feature is the ability to explode 1m behind the wall you just lazed — the one with the enemy hiding behind it."

4 of 782 comments (clear)

  1. Well for one, by psithurism · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I didn't.

  2. 35K... by c0lo · · Score: 0, Redundant
    TFS

    call it the 'XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System' and get your $35,000 worth

    35 K for the rifle... how much per ammunition round?

    Guess is safer to ask first, last time it happened to me when I bought an inkjet printer.

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  3. "Collateral damage" will rise by chilbert · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Seems highly likely that firing grenades (not the most precise of ballistics) from afar at people hidden behind walls will lead to more innocent deaths.

  4. Re:Hope It Helps End the Fighting by mb1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't lase me bro, don't lase me.