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US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle
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."
I count the billions in narcotics trafficking by our CIA to fund the things our Congress won't touch. Apparently, you don't.
Our U.S. soldiers are guarding narcotics fields in Afghanistan.
Redundant, huh?
Guess yet another mod that likes paying taxes in an undisclosed amount, if possible in a supplier lock-in situation.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
What percentage of US casualties are friendly fire incidents?
How much higher will that figure go when these are deployed everywhere?
Eventually the US will get so good at war they'll be the only ones getting kills! Unfortunately the death toll will be in the millions but that's besides the point. U S A U S A U S A!!!!!!!!! Greatest country in the world!!!!
All this, to keep US safe from the Chingers.
They're 10 feet tall, you know.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
+5 insightful?
I never read past the part where you said aks have a smaller caliber. Aks use 7.62 M-4/16 uses 5.56.
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
Number of AK-47 in the world 75 million, number of ak-74s 5 million. I missed the part about the numbers, doesn't change the fact that Sycraft-fu was most likely referring to the 47 as that would be what you'd most likely see.
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.