Friday, December 3, 2010

High tech rifle XM25

The U.S Army unveils the new high tech rifle called the XM25, this revolutionary rifle can now get the enemy even when he is behind cover. According to Joshua Miller of Fox News The XM25 laser ranges the distance of the enemy the when the bullet is fired and gets near the enemy it explodes. Lt. Col. Christopher Lehner the project manager says in a Nov. 28th article in Fox News " the XM25's capability alone is such a game changer that it'll lead to new ways of fighting on the battlefield, beginning this month in Afghanistan."

The XM25 is a 12 pound, 29 inch system, developed by Minnesota's Alliant Techsystems, it cost 35,000 per gun. Though the gun is highly sophisticated it is easy enough to learn and a solider can become comfortable with the gun with in a few minutes According to a Fox News article Lehner states " all the solider needs to do is know how to laze the target, it decimates anything within its lethal radius." From a Nov. 28th Fox News article

The Army plans to buy 12,500 XM25's before the end of this month according to Fox News " The enemy has learned to get cover for hundreds if not thousands of years, well now they can't do that anymore" said Lt Col. Christopher Lehner in a Nov. 28th Fox News article.

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