Pretty freakin’ awesome!

Robert Johnson

Wikipedia Commons

Dubbed “The Punisher” by American forces in Afghanistan, the XM25 fires accurately up to 500 meters.
But the distance isn’t what’s impressing soldiers involved in the live trial of the weapon — it’s its programmable 25mm round.
A target’s distance is transmitted by a rangefinder in the XM25 to the round in the firing chamber. When the grenade leaves the barrel it is spiraling, like a football, and measures the distance it’s traveled by the number of spirals it completes.

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