20mm Shoulder-Fired Cannon Anyone?

[skorpx1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92CLD5VXKg

The video has it all.

20mm shoulder fired cannon and its available for civilian use. Wouldn't mind getting me one of those, and you could probably pick things off from well over a mile away.

[Zacherof]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92CLD5VXKg

The video has it all.

20mm shoulder fired cannon and its available for civilian use. Wouldn't mind getting me one of those, and you could probably pick things off from well over a mile away.

I know some military's are looking at 25mm sniper rifles....

[Gman]

This isn't a new idea.  The Solothurn and Lahti weren't exactly prevalent in WW2, but there were thousands of copies of both around.  Many Americans purchased Solothurn's as a surplus item prior to the gun laws changing in the sixties making it almost impossible to import them.

They came with 2 magazines and the optical sight, as well as a crate of ammo.  They were Swiss built and like a Rolex watch, which isn't always the best for a battlefield weapon.  At the Knox Machine gun shoot every year a few guys bring theirs and shoot stuff with them.  I've shot the Lahti before, but only seen the Solothurn up close.  Guys make their own ammo now by modifying surplus Nato 20mm rounds too.

[rpm]

I forget the name of it but a few years ago there was a new shoulder fired 20mm combat rifle that was very cool. It worked sort of like a recoilless and fired smart HE rounds that would frag on command. Enemy 50 yds away hiding behind a 10ft wall? Set the range and the rounds would explode like puffy ack right on top of them. You could clear a room with just a few rounds thru a window or door with no visual on the nme.

[curry1]

XM25 I think but it was a 25mm round.

[Rino]

     Sure looks like the XM25 fits the bill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25_CDTE

[smoe]

I forget the name of it but a few years ago there was a new shoulder fired 20mm combat rifle that was very cool. It worked sort of like a recoilless and fired smart HE rounds that would frag on command. Enemy 50 yds away hiding behind a 10ft wall? Set the range and the rounds would explode like puffy ack right on top of them. You could clear a room with just a few rounds thru a window or door with no visual on the nme.

I remember the show, I think it Richard " Mack" Machowicz's show. I thought it had a 40mm smart grenade, auto-loading belt fed with the above mentioned options.

[rpm]

XM25 I think but it was a 25mm round.

That's it.

[rpm]

I remember the show, I think it Richard " Mack" Machowicz's show. I thought it had a 40mm smart grenade, auto-loading belt fed with the above mentioned options.

The XM25 isn't belt fed. Must be a different weapon system you're think of.

[Rino]

     That's the XM307, a belt fed crew served 25mm that can be converted to 50 cal in about 2 minutes.
Very wild recoil system and the same laser ranging system for the airburst munitions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCAiQyuWfOk



     The Military channel episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f9FHKQdLzA

[Stellaris]

For sophisticated western armies, there are sophisticated western weapons.

For everyone else, there's Kalashnikov.

Don't leave home without it!

[Rino]

      Anyone kn ow who manufactures the RPG?  Seems like a billion of those out there as well.

[Nashorn]

what RPG are you talking about, there are many variants of launcher starting with rpg like, 7, 18,16,22,26,27,28,29,30,32

[Plawranc]

AK 47's FOR EVERYONE


*a cookie for anyone who gets that reference*

[skorpx1]

what RPG are you talking about, there are many variants of launcher starting with rpg like, 7, 18,16,22,26,27,28,29,30,32

I think he meant who manufactures the RPG series as a whole. Google is nice in these situations, so try that instead.