S. Korea: Special Rifle with Airbust Ammo Developed (Xk-11 KNR: much like OICW)

http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?total_id=2952961 ^ | 11/20/07

[TigerLikesRooster]

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A OICW like rifle that using 20mm airbirst ammunition. (Its concepts are very similar-almost same)

If development completed. It will equipped 2 per one squad

The video also contains other footage:

- a portable tracked robot

-155mm artillery range extension round.

- Xk-2 armor test with 120mm gun

[AmericanInTokyo]

These are needed on America’s southern border.

[Recon Dad]

Once I got the explanation from the announcer everything was clear!

[TigerLikesRooster]

She did not explain what it was capable of. She just said military is working on some cutting-edge weapons.:-)

[Recon Dad]

Only on FR could you get a translation so fast, thanks!

[AmericanInTokyo]

no doubt about it

[TigerLikesRooster]

Once the video clip for the rifle is shown, the narrator did say that the airburst ammo is detonated in mid-air, and the shooter can calibrate how far the ammo travels before it is detonated.

[TigerLikesRooster]

the video also says that the exploding ammo produces hundreds(?) of shrapnels

[casino66]

I seem to remember that we were working on something similar to that ammo. Never heard if it was put into service.

[TigerLikesRooster]

The story I heard that people complained that it is rather bulky, and hard to carry around. If made smaller, it compromises the firepower, so the argument goes.

I do not know if this will be successfully deployed. It is still in testing phase.

[Candor7]

Pffffffft!.....................BOOM!

I'll take two before they are ATF classified as firearms.

Great on the deer stand.

[VOA]

Smoke the Commies/Islamics/Punks hiding behind a structure...
BUMP

[Vinnie]

Saw something similar on FutureWeapons a few weeks ago.

The gun has a built in rangefinder. The soldier takes a reading of the range, it’s automatically sent to the round.
The soldier can fire through a window and the round explodes just inside, killing combatants inside without having to take out the wall..
IIRC it was 20mm.

Cool.

[billmor]

whoa- that 20 mm airburst ammo must be something else !

If it has a rangefinder and the ammo travels to a certain distance then explodes in the air with hundreds of pieces of shrapnel, that means that it could wipe out a whole squad of 10-15 fellows if they are bunched together..if the kill radius is 25 yards, it could be devastating...Al-Q, kiss your *** goodbye baby !

[sionnsar]

airbirst

???

[matthew fuller]

"airbirst "

No, it's "AIRBUST" as in the headline.

[sionnsar]

Is that like this?

[Kirkwood]

“Great on the deer stand.”

Yeah, right. If you really were a hunter, you wouldn’t day that. Shrapnel would tear up the meat and make it inedible.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Well, sorry. The comment part in the post is partly copied from some other source, which unfortunately contained this little misspelling, which I am made aware just now thanks to you.

Then I noticed that I made another misspelling "airbust."

Sorry about these mistakes. I was busy assembling together video, comment, and photo. I was not paying enough attention to spelling. I hope I can do better the next time around.:-)

[sionnsar]

LOL. *\;-)