The first time I saw the The XM-25 I thought, "Holy hell! With this weapon, we can do major damage to the bad guys in the middle east!". It's been dubbed The Game Changer by the military. It's commonly referred to as The Punisher by the soldiers who carry it.

What you have here is an amazing semi-auto shoulder fired 25mm "smart" grenade launcher that is computer controlled. Futuristic is the word that best describes it. The rounds can be programmed to explode at a certain distance. The round itself has a small magnetic generator motor and a circuit board. The magnetic generator motor spins as the grenade is flying, generating electricity. The electricity powers the circuit board that determined the distance it has flown, and ignites the payload.

The programming happens when the soldier peeks into the factory mounted optics. The optics contains both a magnified lens and night vision. The magic happens inside the scope. It will allow the user to range the distance of the target. By default the grenade will detonate at that range. If the user wishes for it to detonate before or after, he can choose how far by pressing button controls near the trigger group.

The XM-25 has been deployed with our Special Forces and some Ranger battalions in Afghanistan and has seen good success.

Visit link below for a nice video demonstration.



Sadly, the XM-25 program came to a screeching halt on Feb 2, 2013. During a training assignment one of the XM-25 exploded in the user's hand, due to a double-feed. The first round's primer was struck igniting the primer. Fortunately, the warhead itself had safety features in place and did not detonate. The soldier only received superficial wounds. This may see more action in the future, depending on whether a redesign can be made. Personally, I would just add thicker primers.

http://blogs.militarytimes.com/gearscout/2013/03/05/breaking-xm25-is-taken-off-line/

offroadaz wrote:

If I ever start to poop gold bars out of my butt, this would be one of the toy I would buy with it.

The KRISS Super V (aka: The Vector) is a low recoil sub-machine gun that fires the honking .45ACP. This rifle has almost ZERO muzzle climb. You will feel a pushback due to recoil, but the muzzle stays on target. It does also reduce felt recoil by 65%.

http://youtu.be/EzwlFI4Fkvw

The MFG website can share more details. I can only add, "I WANT ONE". For the mere price of $2000, this sucker can be yours (or mine). It uses the Glock 21 magazine and, as we know, those hi-cap magazines are everywhere... NOT. It should be noted that this version is a NFA item. You can get the semi-auto version with the short barrel and have it registered as a SBR. The full auto version is NOT available for civilian use. They do make a long barrel semi auto that you can purchase off the shelf, but it looks retarded and I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.


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offroadaz wrote:

This is the Meteba semi-auto revolver. It's unique in that it is a "semi-auto revolver". Why have a semi-auto revolver when there are plenty of semi-auto handguns available? Well, it's in .357 and 44mag. Sure you can buy a huge heavy monster like a Desert Eagle, but the grip is too big for most shooters (including myself).

The cylinder rotates out just like any common revolver. The barrel and upper frame slides backwards during recoil and resets the trigger, hammer, and rotates the cylinder to the next chamber. This has a short stroke, as the upper half only reciprocates back about 3/4".

Personally, I think it's impractical. The designer also said it was impractical. However, he just wanted to see if it can be done. It's an engineering marvel (to those who care). Still, it would make for a nice addition to anyone's gun collection. Going rate is about $3,000.

WAIT! There is a nice feature that is different from most revolvers. The cylinder fires from the bottom chamber, not the top. Yes, the barrel is set lower than normal. This allows for the recoil to go straight down the arm of the shooter, than go up and over. This reduces the felt recoil down to a minimum. The 44mag feels like a .38special.

Ciappa Arms purchased a similar design from the Italian designer, and are selling it as the Chiappa Rhino. It's not a semi-auto, though. Still, you get the same recoil benefits and the ability to change from a 4", 6", to an 8" barrel. And it's around $700.

offroadaz wrote:

Seriously?!? Ok, here goes.

This is the Armat M41a Pulse Rifle. It's the standard issue assault carbine for the United States Colonial Marine Corp and the United States Army. It entered service on 2017 after Armat Battlefield Systems won the trials and was awarded the contract in 2014.

It was modeled after the successful Weyland Storm Rifle and the Harrington Automatic Rifle.

The primary projectile is the Caseless M309 Munition. It's a 10mm 210 grain steel-jacketed or explosive-tipped round that is embedded within a rectangular solid propellant block. The round is ignited by an electrical "pulse". The solid block of propellant is completely burned up an it presses the bullet out of the muzzle. It's this "pulse" that give the rifle it's name. The M41A Pulse Rifle.

The round is pretty stout, but the rifle is equipped with a built in recoil dampener, which significantly reduces muzzle climb and felt recoil. The thumb selector is available in three settings: Safe, 4-burst, or full-auto.



It generates a muzzle velocity of 2,755 fps and a max energy transfer of 90,000 ft/lb when used with the explosive tipped round. The round is most efficient when used against armored personnel or vehicles. The explosive round has a plunger ignition system so the round explodes after penetration, maximizing the damage potential. Due to the weight of the projectile, it has a maximum effective range of 500 meters

The round was originally created by Heckler & Koch in the late 1980s but saw very little use because of the available technology. In the year 2171, technology was more than available to produce this awesome round.

The M41A has a 99 round detachable stick Magazine. The magazine has a large rotary belt which allows the magazine to flow in a "U" pattern, much like the teardrop 10/22 magazine pictured below.



To aid the shooter, the rifle is equiped with a LED round counter. The fixed fire rate is 900 rounds per minute.

The secondary weapon is a pump action 30x71mm grenade launcher with a 4 round tube fed magazine. This magazine type has not changed in years, dating back to the antique shotguns of the 19th century.

To accommodate users of all sizes, a retractable stock has been incorporated. The weight has been significantly reduced do to it's stamped alloy construction and the use of high blend polymers that resist temperatures exceeding 400 degrees. Fully loaded, the rifle weighs just over 10-lbs.

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In case you haven't caught on yet... this was a Movie Gun, used in the 1986 movie ALIENS starring Sigourney Weaver. The reason I played along is that there IS a functioning firearm, of sorts.

Lage MFG produced an actual firing model. Granted, it's not a 10mm 210 grain caseless projectile with a 30mm grenade launcher. Instead, it fires 9mm in full auto and has a 2 round 12-guage lower.

http://youtu.be/am76xV8Aubk

This is an extended video of it in action

http://www.max-11.com/videos/Max41AVideo.mov

Skatchkins wrote:

Most well done sir :)
I figured I could include it since it had technically been remade to fire.

Awesome work.

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HK G36C in .5.56 with HKAG-C/EGLM grenade launcher and Aimpoint CompM4 optic.

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Ah... This monster is the Dillon Aero, made by Dillon Precision of Scottsdale, AZ. When I first saw this I told Mike Dillon that the "AERO" was not a suitable name. It should be called the Big Chubby. I get one every time I see this sucker in action. First, some history.

The original gatling gun was created by Richard Gatling in the 1860s. It had a long gravity fed magazine and was operated by a hand crank. Later model featured drum magazine that was spring driven, but still worked primarily on gravity.

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General Electric made the first Gatling gun that worked with an electric motor instead of a hand crank, and fed ammunition via a linked belt. The caliber was a staggering 20mm called the M61 Vulcan. It was fed via pneumatic and hydraulics and featured air cooled barrels. Air cooled the obvious choice as these were intended to be mounted on fixed winged aircrafts from from the mid 1950s to present day.

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As awesome as this was (6,000 rounds per minute awesome), it did have it's problems. In 1963, GE revisited the design and created a smaller version for smaller utility vehicles and boats. The M134 was born. It was a six barrel semi-portable electric gatling gun that has a fire rate speed controller that adjusted the speeds from 2000 to 6000 rounds per minute. The slower fire speed reduced frequency of of jamming and gave foot soldiers, tanks, and helicopters a real advantage. Chambered in 7.62x51 NATO his was dubbed the "mini-gun" because it was quite a bit smaller than it's big brother, the M61 Vulcan.

Although the GE Minigun is still used today, there are not "that many" in service. The main reason was GE (which was purchased by General Dynamics) stopped offering the M134. Those that were still in service suffer by the lack of spare parts. Some companies tried to make parts from GE's original blueprints but all attempts were quite failing and eventually they were dropped from service.

In 1990 Mike Dillon of Dillon Precision purchased a large inventory of miniguns from various foreign sources. He tried to piece them together and sell them. All of them were essentially worn out and they did have a looming reputation of having failure problems. Dillon decided to reinvent the wheel. He redesigned the feeder/delinker mechanism, slowed the rate of fire to 3,000 RPM and, being the genius that he was, corrected the design and made the firearm virtually Jam-Proof. In the redesign, the firearm actually got lighter, too! It went from a 60LB gun to a 40LB gun, thanks to the use of titanium instead of steel.

Word got out and by 1997, orders were rolling in from all parts of the world. The new gatling gun was dubbed the M134D. D for Dillon. :) The titanium version is called the M134D-T. Or I like to call it the "Big Chubby". By the way, in 2008 Dillon Precision has made the M134D available for civilian market to purchase. Granted, you need a special Class 3 license, be a super wealthy person to afford the $ 90,000 price tag, and poop bars of gold to afford the ammo. At 3,000 round per minute a 3 second burst will set you back $150.00. You're looking at $2,400 every minute. With a service life of 1M rounds, you would have dropped $800,000.00 feeding this monster!

Too bad I didn't win the $400M powerball last week. :mad:

http://youtu.be/nYvEFATaRMY

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Boy, you don't see much reference to this gun anymore! This is the APS underwater assault rifle. Fashioned after the AK-47, this gun fired "darts" underwater. Much like a diver's spear gun, the projectile needed to be longer than a traditional bullet.



To make this magic happen, the stuck 5.56 diameter steel bolt in place of the bullet. There is no rifling i the barrel. Instead, it relied on the hydrodynamic of the water to keep the steel bolt flying (or swimming) straight. Thus, the rifle was useless out of water.



It utilized a 26 round magazine and was quite popular during the Cold War. Used primarily for soviet frogmen, protecting their submarines when docked or in station. It wasn't so much for shooting a person, as it was for shooting their armor and air tanks.

offroadaz wrote:

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I assume this pic is about the little gun under the rifle?

It is a ZiP gun! It's manufactured by USFA and is a funny little pistol. The coolest thing about this gun is that it's very modular and will accept factory Ruger 10/22 magazines.

It's something that is cool, but I'm not sure if I would own one. It's cheap, though. It can be had for $199.00.

Skatchkins wrote:

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This is a nice rifle. It's a custom built rifle using a Badger Ordnance M2008 bolt action receiver and an Accuracy International Chassis System (AICS folding stock). Most of the accessories are from Badger Ordnance. The front rail is their EFR (embedded front rail). It's modular and works best with mounting a night vision adaptor in front of your scope. Bipod is a Harris bipod with an extended lever for rifle cant. The muzzle break is also from Badger. It's their FTE removable muzzle break.

The scope is a mystery to me. It looks like a U.S. Optics SN-3 3.8-22x44mm scope, but the flip switch box behind the knobs elude me. No clue.

That there boys, is at lease a $3500 rifle, as configured. Should be a tack driver!

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