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Monday, February 14, 2011

Meet ‘The Punisher’: A Soldier’s New Weapon of Choice

Posted by Sun Tzu

The Army Times has the goods on a new weapon tested in Afghanistan.  It performed flawlessly  and has our soldiers asking for more.  The XM-25, Counter Defilade Target Engagement System with 25mm rounds,  is semi-automatic, and includes fully integrated day/night, full-solution target acquisition/fire control. Soldiers in the field have given it the nickname “The Punisher.”  The Times reports:

“Since its first contact Dec. 3, the XM25 has been in nine engagements with two units at different locations, officials said. Specifically, it has disrupted two insurgent attacks on observation posts, taken out two PKM machine gun positions and destroyed four ambush sites.

In one engagement, an enemy machine gunner was “so badly wounded or so freaking scared that he dropped [his] weapon” and ran, said Lt. Col. Christopher Lehner, Program Manager Individual WeaponsThere were no casualties among units carrying the XM25 in those nine engagements, Lehner said. Read more here…

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