Posted on 04/14/2016 7:43:06 AM PDT by huldah1776
The U.S. Army is about to acquire a new weapon that could dramatically impact infantry warfare.
The U.S. Army is introducing a new shoulder-fired weapon that has the potential to change infantry tactics and revolutionize infantry warfare in a way unseen since the Battle of Königgrätz in July 1866. That battle, which marked the beginning of the end of the line infantry attack, saw Austrian troops carrying muzzle-loaders outgunned by Prussian infantrymen carrying breech-loading needle guns.
According to its fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget request, the U.S. Army will produce 105 so-called XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement (CDTE) weapons, a precision-guided grenade launcher, and distribute them among specially trained soldiers. Accordingly, the army has requested $9.764 million in FY 2017 for the program and hopes for $14.852 million in FY 2018, $24.930 million in FY 2019, $32.158 million in FY 2020, and $25.798 million in FY 2021, IHS Janes Defense Weekly reports.
For now, not much will change on the battlefield for dismounted soldiers in combat. However, once the weapon is distributed more widely at the squad level throughout the U.S. military, the impact of the XM25 could be revolutionary and fundamentally change small infantry tactics. The XM25 will essentially destroy the value of cover and with it the necessity of long-drawn out firefights. It will also make the old infantry tactic of firing and maneuvering to eliminate an enemy hiding behind cover obsolete.
(Excerpt) Read more at thediplomat.com ...
See MP-APS(Battlefield 4)
Yep, line infantry attacks should have ended in the American Civil War - the Europeans certainly had observers who could have told them what happens to such infantry assaults against a prepared position. Then there was the Somme...
How is this different from indirect fire? Wouldn’t it be cheaper and easier just to equip the units with small mortar teams?
Mark
This is the new stuff from Stark Industries
Just what you see, pal.
I was thinking the same thing when I posted “smart grenades” in reply to running targets, the way the ammo? split into smaller parts. :)
hmmm.
LOL, I’ll tell my son.
Has the Obama administration already provided the plans to our enemies? You know how much I trust that guy!!
You are approached by a frenzied scientist, who yells, “I’m going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber!”
What’s your response?
That’s shoulder fired?
Hey, just what you see pal.
No. Smart bullets:
40 watts doesn’t sound like much.
Whats your response?
Say nothing, grab a nearby pipe and hit the scientist in the head to knock him out. For all you knew, he was planning to blow up the vault.
I have question for you.
Who is indisputably the most important person in Vault 101: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?
As should have unobserved artillery fire.
Exactly right...William Tecumseh Sherman was one of the first Civil War generals who openly resisted open line, high casualty infantry charges.
There are many, many good books on the Civil War, but a really informative one is, Fierce Patriot, The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman, by Robert L. O'Connell.
And Confederate General James Longstreet was way ahead of his time with defensive warfare tactics. He also advised Robert E. Lee to redeploy the army out of Gettysburg and get between the Army of the Potomac and Washington DC. If Lee had listened, the Union would’ve been forced to negotiate and sue for peace. But no. They had to have their Napoleonic Pickett’s charge
Hair-lip dog?
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