Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]

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  • They also tried this before and it fucking sucked.

    About the xm25

    But it was expensive; each round cost $1,000 and was expected to drop to $35 or so in full production. And the system frequently failed. I photographed a sergeant major firing it in a "familiarization shoot” and something like eight rounds failed in a row. A military police soldier and I slowly counted the shots as I took photos, marking each time that another two weeks of our pay had gone downrange and failed to explode.

    It was worse on patrols, where troops couldn’t count on the weapon in tough fights. It was risky to break cover to fire the weapon when it might take five or even 10 shots to get the burst. They obviously tried, but the troops in contact reports would come across the brigade chat system, saying that they’d expended 10 or 20 rounds for zero enemy casualties.

    Apparently the airburst is the key point. They want an easy way to precisely get a grenade behind cover at long range.

    Too bad they forgot that grenades have to actually explode to be useful lol.