Quote Originally Posted by carl View Post
Does anyone know how the XM-25 is working out?
Apparently the grenade launcher system has deployed to Afghanistan in very limited numbers, with limited results.

The XM-25 has fired 55 rounds in nine firefights between Dec. 3 and January 12, when the formal Forward Operational Assessment ended. Officials say the weapon “disrupted” two insurgent attacks against an observation post, destroying one PKM machine gun position in one of those attacks. That is where the ”usually our engagements last for 15-20 minutes. With the XM-25 they’re over in a few minutes” line came from.

The XM-25 also “destroyed” four ambush sites during engagements on foot patrols or movements to contact. In one instance, the 25mm HE round exploded on a PKM gunner and he was either wounded and fled or scared and fled, but dropped his machine gun, which Soldiers later recovered.

Read more: http://kitup.military.com/2011/02/in...#ixzz1KLNJSaXO
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