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Smart grenade launcher XM25

19.08.2013

A Pentagon official said that the XM25 grenade launcher will soon drop the letter "X", which means that the product is experimental. In other words, the XM25 will go into production, though at first in small batches - the first series will have 1100 grenade launchers and their ammunition. The US Army is currently working on implementing some improvements regarding the fire control system, battery life, grenade weight and size. After the completion of this work, the US Army will receive weapons ready for widespread combat use.

The XM25 grenade launcher is a 5,5 kg semi-automatic four-shot grenade launcher equipped with a smart sight with built-in thermal imager, ballistic computer and range finder. The sight allows you to detect the enemy at any time of the day and in any weather, determine the range to the target and program a 25-mm grenade to detonate in a certain place near the enemy, for example, above a trench, a tank hatch, in a window opening, etc. This allows you to reliably hit the target behind shelters that protect against conventional small arms fire. Based on several hundred episodes of the use of the XM25 in Afghanistan, the military concluded that the new weapon is much more effective than most wearable support weapons. A shot from the XM25 usually stops the Taliban attack, and the grenade launcher provides high accuracy at a distance of up to 500 m, that is, further than the Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Guidance occurs as follows: the soldier first finds the target with the help of a perfect 4-fold thermal imaging sighting system integrated into the weapon, then the laser rangefinder is turned on and information about the range to the target appears in the eyepiece of the sight. The soldier needs to select a point near the position of the enemy: on the side, above, behind and press the trigger - the grenade will explode behind, above, under or to the side of the shelter. When exploding, a grenade strikes manpower within a radius of 6 meters.

In one of the episodes of the use of the XM25, a member of the foot patrol, Sergeant Carlos Smith, discovered an ambush using the XM25 sight. Usually the Taliban hide behind rocks, hills, ruins and other shelters that protect from bullets. But in this case, the fighter had an XM25, and a 25-mm grenade exploded right above the enemy machine gunner. As a result, the ambush was thwarted - the enemy fled, taking the wounded with him. In general, the use of a "smart" grenade launcher reduced the battle from the usual 15-20 minutes to 5-7. Thanks to the XM25, the soldiers did not have to approach the enemy from the flanks - the XM25 grenades simply smoked the enemy out of cover, showering him with a hail of shrapnel. For its high combat qualities, the XM25 was nicknamed Punisher ("Punisher").

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