XM-25 Rifle - изменит ход военных действий в Афганистане?

[Meadie]

"Since the dawn of modern warfare, the best way to stay alive in the face of incoming fire has been to take cover behind a wall. But thanks to a game-changing "revolutionary" rifle, the U.S. Army has made that tactic dead on arrival. Now the enemy can run, but he can't hide.

After years of development, the U.S. Army has unleashed a new weapon in Afghanistan -- the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System, a high-tech rifle that can be programmed so that its 25-mm. ammunition does not necessarily explode on impact. Instead, it can be set to detonate either in front of or behind a target, meaning it literally will go through a wall before it explodes and kills the enemy.
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A potential battlefield scenario, according to Army officials, might go something like this:
-- A patrol encounters an enemy combatant in a walled Afghan village who fires an AK-47 intermittently from behind cover, exposing himself only for a brief second to fire.
-- The patrol's leader calls for the XM25 gunman, who uses the weapon's laser range finder to calculate the distance to the target.
-- He then uses an incremental button located near the trigger to add 1 meter to the round's distance, since the enemy is hiding behind a wall.
-- The round is fired, and it explodes with a blast comparable to a hand grenade past the wall and above the enemy."

Video:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/ ... test=faces

[Игорь Николаевич]

Ни одно оружие никогда не меняло ход войны. Чтобы победить в Афганистане необходим целый комплекс действий, и в первую очередь не военных а политических и социальных.

[Алексей K-K]

Ни одно оружие никогда не меняло ход войны.

Неожиданное заявление. А если вспомнить историю.