XM25 Grenade Launcher and Multi-Function Rifle System

November 15, 2011 37

A few months ago, the U.S. Army sent five samples of the new “Individual Semi-Automatic Air Explosion Systems” XM25, developed by ATK, for evaluation by soldiers in Afghanistan. The feedback received is encouraging. "We get great reviews about it." weapons from the soldiers who used it on the battlefield. The soldiers were very pleased with the use of the weapon and asked us to detain it longer than we originally planned to leave these prototypes on the field of action, "said Colonel Scott Armstrong, project manager for Weapons of the Soldier.

Armstrong noted that the recent name change helps users focus on the true benefits of weapons. "The reason why we renamed it is because it is really a tangible solution that we provide to the army, with the ability to bridge the gap, defined as a system for capturing a target hidden behind a fortification." Currently, weapons are at the stage of final development and introduction into production. Congress approved an additional $ 24,7 million to fund 36 new XM25 prototypes. "We hope to get them in our hands for testing by the end of the 2012 of the year, and after six months to conduct additional field tests at the battalion level," said Armstrong.

While XM25 is being proposed as a fully integrated weapon, the Israeli military industry (Israel Military Industries -IMI) presented a different concept. The Israeli military successfully tested an IMI-developed add-on to a standard grenade launcher 40-mm grenade launcher, allowing an airborne explosion in the style of a weapon similar to the XM25. The Multi Purpose Rifle System (MPRS) rifle system is being tested by the Israeli Defense Forces and may be ready for delivery at the beginning of 2012. The company also demonstrated the development of the US Army and Marine Corps; IMI works with General Dynamics to distribute the system in the United States.

The Multifunction Shooting System (MPRS) is designed to significantly improve the accuracy and range of 40-mm rifle grenades. The system consists of integrated optics, a laser range finder and a processor, all of which are mounted in a single unit, which is mounted on any rifle using Picatinny rails. Using a touch panel mounted grenade launcher, a soldier can program special 40-mm grenades so that they explode just above the target at a distance over 250 meters. "At distances greater than 100 or 150 meters from an 40-mm grenade launcher it is very difficult to hit the target, but with this system you can shoot very precisely - at a distance over 200 meters you can put a grenade right through the window."

The XM25 weighs 6,35 kg (14 pounds) with a loaded magazine of four rounds. The MPRS system with optics, a computer, a touchpad and a connecting cable weighs only about 450 grams (one pound), so a rifle equipped with an 40-mm grenade launcher and four grenades weighs only about 6,70 kg (15 pounds). While the XM25 has the advantage of automatic charging, the Israeli model can be recharged more quickly and advantageously uses existing logistics, training and tactics, methods and procedures. Both systems are currently presented at the 2011 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Washington.

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Sergh

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15 November 2011 08: 46

Eco surprised 4-charger. Here you are, mini-pinocchio, thermobaric and I think that to put an aim to deliver to engineers is not a problem:

Caliber: 43 mm
Type: multiple-charge grenade launcher with manual reload
Length: 810 mm (540 mm with stock folded)
Weight: 4.8 kg without ammunition
Effective range: up to 300 m
Magazine capacity: 3 shots

The GM-94 manual multiple-charge grenade launcher was developed at the Tula Instrument Design Bureau in the early 1990s. The main purpose of the new weapon was to provide fire support for infantry in close combat conditions, especially in the city, as well as conduct special police operations. A number of 94mm unitary rounds were developed specifically for the GM-43, including high-explosive fragmentation grenades, tear gas grenades, and rubber bullet rounds.
Of special interest are high-explosive ammunition having thermobaric equipment with a high specific gravity of the explosive to the mass of the shot. This is achieved through the use of a plastic grenade body. Such an unusual decision was made to ensure the safe use of a grenade launcher at minimum ranges, eliminating the shooter's defeat with fragments of his own grenade. The enemy’s manpower destruction zone with a high explosive effect (shock wave, high temperature) of a thermobaric charge has a radius of up to 3 meters, and the minimum (conditionally) safe firing distance is only 5 meters.
The mass of the thermobaric (high-explosive) grenade VGM-93 is about 250 grams, of which 160 grams fall on the explosive charge. the initial velocity of the grenade is about 85 m / s.
1. Joker
  
  0
  
  15 November 2011 09: 17
  
  You compared of course this is how to compare t-xnumx and t-xnumx
  1. Mr. Truth
    
    +3
    
    15 November 2011 10: 14
    
    According to the high-explosive action, the GM-94 is definitely out of competition.
  2. Gurza
    
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    15 November 2011 11: 02
    
    They kill the calculation with this XM25 and that's it, it becomes an ordinary border !!! they already had such an experience !!!
    1. Joker
      
      +2
      
      15 November 2011 11: 29
      
      We are discussing weapons, not the calculation that uses them.
      1. Tjumenec72
        
        +3
        
        15 November 2011 15: 49
        
        I goof off with Pindos - come up with crap at the price (judging from the article) 800.000 $ apiece . Here the balance of price and quality is clearly upset.
        For such an amount you can be numbed by a hundred grenades (without any “guidance” there), even if you work out an adversary.
        I don’t argue, it’s better to remove the sniper or machine gunner from the first shot. It’s better not to stick your head out again, but IMHO they have chosen not the best way.
        The weapon is definitely anti-poop - to set up serial production and equip ALL granotomotchikov is an akhtung.
        
        Tjumenec72
        
        +2
        
        15 November 2011 15: 55
        
        Yes, and by the way there are analogues - the Korean automatic grenade launcher complex ADD K11
        
        Professor
        
        -2
        
        15 November 2011 16: 13
        
        I goof off with Pindos - come up with crap at the price (judging from the article) 800.000 $ apiece
        
        Please do not confuse the cost of development with the price of the final product.
        
        Also available much cheaper: MPRS
2. Alexey Prikazchikov
  
  +2
  
  15 November 2011 10: 12
  
  He would have such an electronica as this shitty price would not have been.
  1. Joker
    
    +5
    
    15 November 2011 11: 39
    
    I am amazed at you guys, it’s already funny to become when I read your comments XM 25 currently has no competitors at all, you begin to compare the primitive hand grenade launcher and modern high-tech weapons. This is not AK and M16, here is a completely different class. Even the grenades they have are different, with XM 25 they are adjustable with the distance of detonation (that is, you choose at what distance the grenade will explode, to the target, before the target, above the target) A rangefinder and NVD are installed on the weapon, in the following models they are also mounted thermal imager. And do you compare it with prehistoric junk? Of course, I understand that you are building patriots from yourself, but not to the same extent that you knowingly praise a losing weapon for many orders of magnitude. You still say that the WHA is better than BMW.
    For example, compare the guidance system of the tank T 34 and the new T 90, for t 34 it is analog, i.e. I twist it myself and bring it to the target, and on the T 90 it is digital with the ability to launch a rocket through the barrel. That's the same with these grenade launchers. T 34 against t 90 and a minute would not hold out.
    1. Alexey Prikazchikov
      
      +3
      
      15 November 2011 13: 21
      
      And what prevents this grenade from making a multichannel thermal imager and damn at least the built-in ballistic computer, what prevents it? And by the way, VAZ and BMW can not be compared. VAZ makes cars economy class and BMW vosnomom business class
      1. Joker
        
        0
        
        15 November 2011 16: 17
        
        That's when you put it, then we will compare, I think the price will be practically the same for them.
        As for the VAZ, GM-economy class XM-business class.
3. Sergh
  
  +1
  
  15 November 2011 13: 38
  
  I repeat, but to the point, maybe someone has not seen. In my opinion, this device does not need such a sight!
  
  http://video.mail.ru/mail/chas7979/38/936.html
  1. Alexey Prikazchikov
    
    +1
    
    15 November 2011 13: 52
    
    Yes, I do not need a mine, but it’s more compact and not such a fool, and everything should be reliable.
marmon

+2

15 November 2011 09: 41

XM25 camping trip is a good thing
Mr. Truth

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15 November 2011 10: 16

I do not understand the meaning of this weapon, 25 mm is so miserable that they can only drive nudibranchs and animals, yet they can advertise (lie).
1. Professor
  
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  15 November 2011 10: 50
  
  Advertising is not advertising, they use this weapon on the battlefield.
  Here is another advertisement:
  http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2005smallarms/thursday/guttel.pdf
rumpeljschtizhen

+1

15 November 2011 10: 26

Mr. Truth and judging by the video, a fairly dense cloud of fragments of fragments
1. Mr. Truth
  
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  17 November 2011 13: 03
  
  The main speed and mass of fragments, judging by the mass of the grenade, its high-explosive fragmentation effect is less than 30 mm of our OFS, who let him introduce it.
ereke

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15 November 2011 11: 14

I read the article, a good thing and necessary for an infantryman and for the forces of a special unit, even more so. In vain you criticize the XM25 Grenade Launcher. The Russian analogue of GM-94 (this one will certainly be more perfect than GM-94). Created in the Russian Federation in the early 90s and used in Kazakhstan by special forces and infantry, it showed itself only on the good side. It is thanks to GM-94 that the storming of the house by the "Sunkar" special forces in the mine of the city of Almaty, where armed bandits (AK-74, F-1 hand grenades, TT pistols) sat to the teeth, can be considered a success.

here is a video from the "discovery" of the elite police units of the world with Chris Ryan (himself a former special forces of the English SAS). Where Ryan shoots with a GM-94 ammunition of a volumetric explosion at the laid out auto tires, which were given to him by the Sunkarovtsy. There you can clearly see how Ryan is simply dumbfounded with amazement from the effect of the explosions, the tires fly to shreds. And he yells after each shot, "Oh, bastard! God forbid, they turn out to be on the other side of the shot! I've never seen anything like it!"

the second part of the video, tests, weapons at the "Sunkar" training ground

http://yvision.kz/yv/83415
zavesa01

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15 November 2011 11: 25

Yeah, surprised. In 2002, Belgium began to supply the FN F2002 with a ballistic computer that automatically detects the aiming point and a 40 mm grenade launcher with the ability to remotely detonate a grenade. The Yankees seemed to be trying to develop their own but failed. They intend to take into service in 2012 the OICW automatic grenade launcher systems created on the basis of the Kokhov G36 automatic grenade launcher for 6 grenades. There are three types of garnet: high explosive, cumulative and educational-training. And again, one minus caliber grenade launcher 20 mm. They refused to modernize the m4.
In my opinion, a Belgian toy is much more effective. Our army would have such weapons but dreams, dreams. Although he did not shoot from her
1. Mr. Truth
  
  -2
  
  16 November 2011 00: 35
  
  You overplayed.
Artemka

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15 November 2011 12: 21

A bunch of electronics, but if it breaks? Will the soldier have a good club in his hands?
1. AlexAl
  
  +4
  
  15 November 2011 13: 02
  
  Will definitely break. As well as on modern aircraft, helicopters, missiles, tanks and more.
  
  (As a joke)
  Do you offer to run away with a tape measure, change the distance, so that you set the distance on the grenade, where it should explode, or is it better with an electronic range finder?
  
  (As an example of the insidiousness of electronics)
  Even on an ordinary civilian car, the electronics are higher than the roof, and if ABS gets over and blocks all wheels at speed, only one front, only the rear? And if the electric power steering glitches and turns the steering wheel to the left or right at speed? And if the ASP (Electronic Stability Program) doesn’t read the rudder sensor readings correctly and decides that you turned the steering wheel to the left while the car is moving straight and starts to brake on one side? And if the automatic gearbox, at a speed of more than a hundred decides to include a lower gear?
  
  Regarding cars, I've seen a lot of such cases. With me, ABS blocked the wheels on the go on the VOLVO-850, well at a speed of 40km / h. With me, the ABS bleed off the pressure in the brake circuit on the BMW 835 in winter, didn’t want to brake at all, I had to put the box on the parking lot on the go (block the wheels), well at a speed of 30 km / h (the NordFrost4 rubber was new), and also on the T-shaped intersection not viewed in both directions, drove out.
  1. Alexey Prikazchikov
    
    0
    
    15 November 2011 13: 24
    
    I remember the appearance of such things, just the inevitability, we also need such things.
dred

-2

15 November 2011 13: 35

Artemka,
yes not to break it is not necessary to give out. nothing to itself a trick at the price of 35000 dollars.
zavesa01

0

15 November 2011 13: 42

It is unlikely that at this stage the economy will pull such a rearmament. Yes, and expensive toys, not PPSh, on the knee can not be collected. And as for electronics, the machine will shoot without it and the grenade will explode upon contact with the target. Just shooting at a moving target improves many times. Figuratively speaking, every soldier is practically a sniper. I don’t know how true it is, but grenade firing is declared at 1000 m (sighting)
1. Alexey Prikazchikov
  
  +1
  
  15 November 2011 13: 54
  
  Such a weapon pays off over time, as ammunition consumption is lower and losses, too (if you use the fighters directly) are like long-term investments.
  1. Tjumenec72
    
    0
    
    15 November 2011 16: 03
    
    The infantry will not live so much to recoup it)))
    1. Alexey Prikazchikov
      
      0
      
      15 November 2011 17: 09
      
      For crap commanders and literate fighters, it’s not cannon fodder but an expensive military unit that can make independent decisions based on the tactical situation.
Setevik

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15 November 2011 16: 09

Quote: Joker
XM 25 currently has no competitors at all,

C'mon, not so bad and good as it seems!

It’s clear that this is a test model that should work (!) For the time being in a shooting range. Until such things enter the troops early to discuss anything.

But the general trend is clear - integration with computers and electronic devices. By and large, this is for work "for tomorrow". It makes no sense to hait them, but to invent something ourselves - yes.

A separate question about efficiency! .. Since. Until they achieve normal operation in working conditions, the electronic segment of technology will make a strong leap and have a normal price / quality ratio, and modernization of weapons will already be needed. So this is not for capturing countries ... but for tactical units.
1. Joker
  
  +2
  
  15 November 2011 16: 21
  
  It is already used in the US troops. Somewhere I watched US news and there the shooting was in Afghanistan, behind the scenes 2 or 3 times flashed by soldiers with such a grenade launcher.
J_silver

-2

15 November 2011 18: 30

Bullshit is not a weapon! You can use it only at your own laboratory, and even it is desirable to keep a special battle nearby, so that dust particles from the device look like ...
demon ada

+1

15 November 2011 18: 57

interesting
how many RPG-7 grenade launchers can I buy
and shots to him for one such clever grenade launcher.
and how this supercomputer with grenade launcher functions will behave
if he falls on stones a couple of times and lounges in the mud.
PSih2097

+2

15 November 2011 19: 53

I wonder how it (XM25) will work after EMR (there is no sight, except for a computer one)?
Patos89

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12 January 2012 22: 33

Che procrastinate buy and test, but in general, according to the characteristics, a weapon is not bad judging by the explosion of shells overhead in the trench you will not sit
AlexAl- Never compare a civilian car, etc. things with military tanks, thermal imagers, etc. since many things come from the military
Professor

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30 March 2013 14: 04

Grenade launcher XM25 lit up in Afghanistan.

US Major Christopher Conley from Alpha Troop 1-75 Cavalry 2nd Brigade 101st
Alexez

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29 February 2016 13: 57

It’s interesting how his range finder will work in conditions of fog, rain, snow, dust, smoke - in the sense of all that interferes with measuring distance, and there are so many on the battlefield. But as a technology demonstrator, it’s very impressive. The price of the device, I think, is disappearing by tens of thousands of American money (meaning serial production and not experimental).
1. Professor
  
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  29 February 2016 16: 22
  
  Quote: Alexez
  The price of the device, I think, is disappearing by tens of thousands of American money (meaning serial production and not experimental).
  
  The cost for the XM25 and the rounds it fires is expensive today, Lucas said, because the weapons and ammunition are being manufactured by hand. But with development of automated production facilities, he said the price is expected to come down to about $ 35,000 for the weapon and fire control system, and about $ 55 per round.
  $ 35 per gun and $ 000 per shot.