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

Probably because your're googling for OISW instead of OICW. ;-)

It would be impressive to be able to wipe all mention of something from 
the internets. Can't really be done though some government agencies 
which accidentally released information publically wish there was an 
undo button.

-Mark

Oerjan Ariander wrote:
> 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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