Re: [GZG] Real Life catches up to, passes(?), Star Grunt weaponry

Roger B W wrote:

> >>http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/11/10/30147-army-testing-xm-25-smar 
> t-high-explosive-weapon-for-soldiers/
>
> >Color me impressed, that sounds like a well thought out system.
>
>Looks like a carryover from the failed OICW/SABRE project

It is, though with the calibre borrowed from the OISW (25mm instead 
of 20mm). (Hm, that's funny - I get zero hits when googling for OISW. 
Was that program *that* thoroughly killed...? :-S)

>- good news if
>they can get it to work, but let's hope they've fixed the problems that
had.

Yeah... looking at the combat scenario on the above-linked page, I 
wish them all luck in getting low-velocity rounds to consistently 
detonate at such precise a distance. While they're entirely correct 
that those tiny rounds will cause very little collateral damage when 
they're on target, they only need to be *off* target by a few meters 
to inflict no damage at all :(

>but AIUI the
>major concerns were non-robustness of the rangefinder computer and
shell
>programming system, and structural problems which caused a number of
>them to blow up during testing (with at least one death, as I heard
it).

Ouch. I hadn't heard about any fatal accidents - was that at 
Aberdeen? ... and do you know any more about that?

Later,

Oerjan 

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