The rest of the articleMilitary.com wrote:
The futuristic looking XM25 fires a “smart” High Explosive Airburst round out to around 600 meters. The smart round is a “counter defilade” round, designed to blast enemy infantry taking cover behind walls, cars, in trenches as well as enemy fighters dumb enough to be standing out in the open.
xm29 was a variant of it, it basically was the same except with added xm8. Got cancelled because it was too bulky though.KuSTaV wrote:
Looks like its from the OICW project.
IIRC, the default is at impact, but the operator can manually set it to go off earlier, to hit a trench/foxhole/etc, or later if he wants to shoot through a window/thin wall. The round is programed to count the number of times the grenade rotates before detonation by a ballistics computer in the gun, which would take drop into account.Flaming_Maniac wrote:
- Does it assume to hit ~5 feet behind whatever the range the laser designator is at?
- How does it account for drop?
Impact? It's airburst...mcgid1 wrote:
IIRC, the default is at impact, but the operator can manually set it to go off earlier, to hit a trench/foxhole/etc, or later if he wants to shoot through a window/thin wall. The round is programed to count the number of times the grenade rotates before detonation by a ballistics computer in the gun, which would take drop into account.Flaming_Maniac wrote:
- Does it assume to hit ~5 feet behind whatever the range the laser designator is at?
- How does it account for drop?
"The XM25 uses a laser rangefinder to target the enemy, then the weapon’s micro-computer accounts for air pressure, temperature and the 25mm round’s ballistics, feeds that information to a microchip in the round itself programming it to detonate directly over the target. "Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Impact? It's airburst...mcgid1 wrote:
IIRC, the default is at impact, but the operator can manually set it to go off earlier, to hit a trench/foxhole/etc, or later if he wants to shoot through a window/thin wall. The round is programed to count the number of times the grenade rotates before detonation by a ballistics computer in the gun, which would take drop into account.Flaming_Maniac wrote:
- Does it assume to hit ~5 feet behind whatever the range the laser designator is at?
- How does it account for drop?
I meant drop as in how do you tell what angle to fire the gun at.
Last edited by Ioan92 (2010-02-09 23:19:12)
yes, you set the range it explodes.Jimbo145 wrote:
Wasnt there a Battlefield 2142 rifle just like that?
