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ATK Delivers First XM25 Prototypes to U.S. Army for Testing and Evaluation


(Source: Alliant Techsystems; issued Apr. 27, 2005)


MINNEAPOLIS --- Alliant Techsystems has delivered the first six prototype XM25 advanced airbursting weapon systems to the U.S. Army for field-testing. The XM25 fires a High Explosive (HE), air bursting 25mm round capable of defeating an enemy behind a wall, inside a building or in a foxhole. The advanced design allows the operator to program the round so that it flies to the target and detonates at a precise point in the air. It does not require impact to detonate.

The XM25 is ideal for urban combat. It puts precision firepower in the hands of the soldier, allowing them to eliminate threats without causing significant collateral damage. "The initial field tests are very promising," said LTC Matthew Clarke, U.S. Army project manager, individual weapons. "A weapon system like the XM25 will prove invaluable to our warfighters. It will be a clear differentiator on the battlefield."

The revolutionary fire control system for the XM25 employs an advanced laser rangefinder that transmits information to the chambered 25mm round. As the round flies downrange to the target, it precisely measures the distance traveled and detonates at exactly the right moment to deliver maximum effectiveness. The XM25 increases the warfighter's probability of hit-to-kill performance by up to 500 percent over existing weapons. It also extends the effective range of the soldier's individual weapon to more than 500 meters.

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The XM25 is ideal for urban combat.

Deve ir ser muito util no Iraque...ouvi hj na rádio que mais alguns "libertadores" foram ter com Allah mais cedo do que estava previsto....

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Army Officer Acquitted Of Raping Soldier

Associated Press
April 28, 2005

FORT RUCKER, Ala. - An Army officer was acquitted by a military judge Wednesday of raping a soldier in her barracks room, a claim the defense said she concocted to keep from being sent to Iraq.

First Lt. Mike Hall, 35, had testified in his court-martial that a night of dancing, flirting and kissing with 1st Lt. Jennifer Dyer, 26, last August led to consensual sex, not rape as she alleged.

He said Dyer invited him into her room at Camp Shelby in Mississippi and that, during two short episodes of intercourse, he stopped both times when she said "No."

Hall was also acquitted on an adultery charge but convicted of having sex without informing his partner that he had genital herpes. The sex transmission charge is part of the military justice code that refers to acts "unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman."

Prosecutors wanted Hall to be sentenced to a year in prison or dismissed from the military on the sex transmission charge. But the judge, Col. Richard Gordon, ordered Hall to forfeit $1,000 of his monthly pay of some $3,700 for four months. He said Hall would receive a written reprimand.

The judge said Hall's deployment to Iraq to rejoin his unit would be up to his company commander, who has said he is in favor of it.

"I want the opportunity to still go serve with my unit," Hall said. "I want to show what I did was a mistake."

The prosecutor, Capt. Richard Dodson, said the evidence against Hall showed he "has no respect for Army values."

The judge acquitted Hall, who lives in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on the most serious charge of rape after a three-day trial at which Dyer testified that Hall forced her to have sex twice. She said she was too afraid of Hall to call for help in the barracks.

Dyer cried when the verdict was read and was escorted away without making any statement. Dyer, a National Guard soldier from New Jersey at the time, has since been honorably discharged and returned to her law enforcement job with a sheriff's department in New Jersey.

Dyer went public with her story on CBS' "60 Minutes," complaining that Army investigators doubted her claim and put her in a hotel room without access to a phone for two days.

[Rui Elias Maltez]

Deve ir ser muito util no Iraque...ouvi hj na rádio que mais alguns "libertadores" foram ter com Allah mais cedo do que estava previsto....

Segundo as últimas, pelo menos 8 confirmados e mais alguns.

Parece que tiveram guia de marcha para regressar a casa mais cedo, mas infelizmente, dentro de body-bags.

O Rumsfeld deve estar satisfeitíssimo com a sua obra grandiosa.

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Quanto à viatura, é interessante, mas dadas as dimensões, não dará para todos os ambientes urbanos.

Ruas estreitas e becos não é com ele.

Só melhora tendo em conta a blindagem.