When another round comes along that does the many things that the .50BMG can and be effective for 94 years that is the point at which I will be impressed.
That XM109 I assume is going to use same 25mm rounds that another army project(that got canceled) uses.Which is an air burst round.Thing is those type round need laser to tell them at which point to burst.Which is actually a negative for two reasons
1.Lasers tend to have trouble with a good return during in climate weather(mist,fog,rain,dust)
2.Targets usually move which means that by the time the rounds get to point x the target may be far enough away from point x that the shrapnel does not hurt him.In addition it being a small 25mm round it more or less has to air burst to be effective against a target due to low blast radius.With an LGB it has been dropped form great height and has algorithms hit a moving target.
In short aginst a soft target I would rather have a 40mm grenade weapon(higher kill radius also more bang juice inside a 40mm).
And against a hard target LAW,Javelin similar weapon.This XM109 tries to be a jack of all trades which makes it a master of none.
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