• XM25 Rifles can Take Out Enemies Behind Cover

    XM25 Rifles can Take Out Enemies Behind Cover

    Nachiket Mhatre, Nov 30, 2010 1522 hrs IST

    Games like Call of Duty may introduce these rifles in their series

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U.S. Army's newly instated XM25 rifle has what the army calls the Counter Defilade Target Engagement System. Defilade is military speak for a position that offers any form of natural or artificial obstacles to shield or conceal the unit from enemy fire. What the XM25 does is hit the enemies behind cover, so even those fortified within houses or behind walls become vulnerable to the XM25 rifle.

That means FPS games, especially war shooters like the Call of Duty series, may also reflect the same at the risk of considerably lowering the game difficulty.

The XM25 system achieves this with the help of a laser target acquisition system that calculates the distance to the target. A soldier can use the XM25 to neutralize terrorists holed up inside a house by lasing the window, and setting the delay so that the 25mm HE round detonates 2m from the window.

The entire process from lasing the target to detonation is claimed to take less than 10 seconds with the XM25 rifle, while the same would require over 10 minutes for a traditional mortar setup to achieve. The U.S. Army has already put the XM25 rifle to use in Afghanistan, where it's expected to change the basics of combat by eliminating the crucial defensive strategy of cover for the enemies.

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Sunil
,Jammu, on Nov 30, 2010 04:18 PM
Well..That's something Tech tree guys just came in. The original article was posted on Wikipedia in June and even before that..rifle was shown on future weapons (discovery)
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Nachiket
,TechTree, on Nov 30, 2010 05:00 PM
Sunil, your comment stems from an ignorance about how weapons systems are designed, produced, tested and then brought into service. You see, weapons being weapons grade, cannot be designed, mass-produced and put into active duty in the time frame that it takes to bring out a new flavour of Maggi noodles. These precision engineered tools of war have to endure the worst, and therefore undergo years of testing and prototyping before they are put in service. What you refer to are the prototype versions listed on Wikipedia/Future Weapons and showcased, as a prototype and not as a final product. It's not uncommon for such a weapons systems to be in development for over a decade, the H&K UMP45 being one such submachine gun that was in the development stage for nine years. This news article has been carried because the XM25 system has been deployed in active service in Afghanistan, and hence relevant.
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