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hereAlso interesting weapon here that does not use shells.
To: Texaggie79
only thing is, this gun is very heavy
2 posted on
09/17/2001 1:37:31 PM PDT by
arielb
To: Texaggie79
Somebody must have hired the prop master from the second Alien movie...but at least bin Laden doesn't bleed acid.
To: Texaggie79
Hmmm. I'll take two, please.
To: Texaggie79
Is it available to us 2nd Amendment folks? I want one! What's the rate of fire? Effective range?
5 posted on
09/17/2001 1:41:36 PM PDT by
meandog
To: Texaggie79
It's the perfect conceal carry weapon....
Does it come with a holster perhaps ?
6 posted on
09/17/2001 1:41:50 PM PDT by
Dallas
To: Texaggie79
...to be in the field by 2006? I suspect that bin Laden has long since make his journey to HELL by that time.
7 posted on
09/17/2001 1:42:10 PM PDT by
Howie66
(Pkrbkr66@hotmail.com)
To: Texaggie79
This is the gun mentioned second, the one without shells.
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| One of the selling points about the G11 and caseless technology was its comparison to conventional weapon systems. For the German Bundeswehr, still fielding the G3, the comparison should be obvious. For American purposes the M16 was included for comparison, since the G11 was HK's entry into the Advanced Combat Rifle program in the early 1990s. The ACR program eventually ended with the U.S. government choosing improvements on the M16 system for the forseeable future. |
To: Texaggie79
Ouch!
To: Texaggie79
And empty tent or no empty tent, I suspect bin and his trusty henchmen are gonna be digging some of THESE out of THEIR butts soon:
To: Texaggie79
AAhhhh. Ain't it a thing of beauty. Thanks for the introduction.
To: Texaggie79
Call me old-fashioned, but this thing looks like a cluster $%# waiting to happen.
No iron sites evident, they've added an electrical component to a chemical-mechanical device (increasing geometrically ways it can go wrong), still uses the lousy 5.56 mm round, and too heavy ...
To: Texaggie79
I have seen this written up many times before and I have the following questions:
Do you really think the extra weight of this weapon will be justified?
How long will the batteries hold up?
How will it handle EMP?
How will it handle mud, sand, water, snow and heat etc?
Will problems in its computer give a whole new meaning to Blue screen of death
I am old fashioned in my views on weapons so given the choice I will take an CAR15 with 40 mm greanade launcher. The only sound more frightening than boom when you expect to hear click is click when you really really want to hear boom.
Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
16 posted on
09/17/2001 1:48:38 PM PDT by
harpseal
To: Texaggie79
17 posted on
09/17/2001 1:49:22 PM PDT by
d14truth
To: Texaggie79
While it isn't the real thing, you can download OICW addons for the video game Urban Ops. Again, it's not reality but I can tell you that we had to ban using the OICW in team play because of how powerful it is. Even w/o the 20mm explosive rounds, the gun is vicious (as it is modeled).
19 posted on
09/17/2001 1:51:07 PM PDT by
wireplay
To: Texaggie79
Cute toy, but US grunts will still be the ones shooting it.
22 posted on
09/17/2001 1:57:21 PM PDT by
rdww
To: Texaggie79
Shades of "Aliens" and the weapons used by the Marines.
To: Texaggie79
Interesting stuff.
Gig 'em Aggies! Confusion and Death to our enemies!
27 posted on
09/17/2001 2:05:51 PM PDT by
LibKill
To: Texaggie79
I don't think this weapon is ready for the field yet. It has some very promising elements, partucularly the 20mm round. When a firefight breaks out, the first thing most soldiers do is hit the dirt, and picking them off behind cover can be very dangerous and time-consuming. If this round can be perfected to explode above a concealed/grounded enemy, it will be a great advance, as long as the troops can "dial it in" and deploy the rounds in an efficient fashion>
The 5.56mm round is not a "lousy" round; in fact, it has a vicious wounding/killing potential within a certain range, as long as minumum required velocity is attained. The problem that I see with the OICW is that the barrel is far too short to achieve the required velocity to make 5.56mm rounds lethal. A 16" barrel is the minumum acceptable, while this OICW only has a 10" barrel (see the failure of 11" barrelled guns in Somalia). This gun will not be able to propel the 5.56mm round to the 2700 FPS velocity required to cause fragmentation in tissue.
A 20" barrel can maintain 2700 FPS out to 150-200 yards or so, a 16" barrel can do so out to 90-140 yards, depending on ammunition.
To: Texaggie79
Hate to tell ya, guys... but the M98's some Afghans use are better weapons for their terrain than anything more recent. Good ballistic coefficient plus a long sight radius equals hits at long range!
35 posted on
09/17/2001 3:49:02 PM PDT by
Grut
To: Texaggie79
BUMP for Bookmark
36 posted on
09/17/2001 5:50:05 PM PDT by
logic
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