Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

The MXT135 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System

The MXT135 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System has a range of roughly 7,800 feet - and is to be deployed in Afghanistan soon. I would call it the "Equalizer." Some call it the "Punisher".

The rifle's gun sight uses a laser range finder to determine the exact distance to the obstruction, after which the soldier can add or subtract up to 10 meters from that distance to enable the bullets to clear the barrier and explode above or beside the target.

Soldiers will be able to use them to target snipers hidden in trenches rather than calling in air strikes.

The 35-millimeter round contains a chip that receives a radio signal from the gun sight as to the precise distance to the target.

Lt. Col. Christopher Lehner, project manager for the system, described the weapon as a 'game-changer' that other nations will try and copy.

The Army plans to buy 42,500 of the MXT135 rifles this year, enough for every member of the infantry and special forces, at a cost of $11,900.00 each.

Lehner told Fox News: "With this weapon system, we take away cover from [enemy targets] forever. Tactics are going to have to be rewritten. The only thing we can see [enemies] being able to do is run away."

Experts say the rifle means that enemy troops will no longer be safe if they take cover The MXT135 appears to be the perfect weapon for street-to-street fighting that troops in Afghanistan have to engage in, with enemy fighters hiding behind walls and only breaking cover to fire occasionally.

The weapon's laser finder would work out how far away the enemy was and then the U.S Soldier would add one meter using a button near the trigger.

When fired, the explosive round would carry exactly one meter past the wall and explode with the force of a hand grenade above the Taliban fighter

The army's project manager for new weapons, Douglas Tamilio, said: ''This is the first leap-ahead technology for troops that we've been able to develop and deploy."

A patent granted to the bullet's maker, Alliant Tech systems, reveals that the chip can determine how far it has traveled. Mr. Tamilio said: "You could shoot a Javelin missile, and it would cost about $69,000. These rounds will end up costing $45.00 apiece."

They're relatively cheap Lehner added: "This is a game-changer. The enemy has learned to get cover, for hundreds if not thousands of years. Well, they can't do that anymore. We're taking that cover from them and there's only two outcomes: We're going to get you behind that cover or force you to flee." The rifle will initially use high-explosive rounds, but its makers say that it might later use versions with smaller explosive charges that aim to stun rather than k**l.

What one of the revolutionary bullets looks like that can be pre-programmed to explode to hit troops that are hiding.

This kinda' takes the sport oughta' sniper hunting

F.D.R.

DO NOT LET THEM RUN AWAY ! They'll be back another day and that is not acceptable. Stun 'em if you need a prisoner, k**l 'em if you don't.

badbobby Loc: texas

interesting Salty
should be a great benefit for our ground troops
now
lets get the rifle and the ammo to them

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

Have you seen the 25... aka, the "punisher?" Watch this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-7L0Frj6vQ

badbobby Loc: texas

If I was a taliban
I would leave Afghanistan
for a safer place

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

****************************************
NYC...would be a very safe place for them
also San Fran, Oakland, Denver, Seattle, etc, etc

thinksense

During the Korean war we had a sniper, a Marine Major, who would use a fifty cal. machine gun on a tripod to allow maximum range, with exploding rounds loaded into a cloth belt, using one round and then an empty , then another round followed by an empty, so that he would fire only one round at a time.

He would fire just past the target to hit a rock or wall and the bullet would explode sending shrapnel in all directions including backwards into the target.

He and his spotter would set up in the open on one of the hills, and pick off gooks hiding in their trenches. With the 50 Cal. he had range on them and unless they called in mortars or artillery there was no way they could touch him.

I’m told he averaged at least one target per day.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

***************************************************
Very interesting, thanks for the post.

Big dog

" A Game Changer " ? THAT'S an understatement.