XM29 OICW

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Go home Bloomberg.

Did they really expect a grunt to do crazy math during a firefight so the grenades would explode perfectly at a certain distance?

He isn't even looking through it

ITT: gun manufacturers creating answers to question noone has asked

Yes.
Honestly, you'd get 99% of the effectiveness with something like the PAW-20.
youtube.com/watch?v=eu87AxzBf3Y
Gotta love the music they used.

>QTS11
>superior
Nah, swapping to single shot bolt action was a decent trade off to save weight, but the optics and grenades on the QTS are shit in comparison to every other air burst weapon developed.
That was all handled by the scope/FCS. If you're targeting someone behind a wall say, you'd lase the wall to get a distance, press the plus button to add 1m to the distance and then the optic would provide an adjusted reticule for the user automatically accounting for the arc at that distance. The user does less math than any traditional scope, just line up the reticule with the target.
It really couldn't. Air burst is the entire reason those weapons exist and the PAW is point detonation only.

Had, user. They had. Now they are gobbling on BGB (Big German Bratwurst).

Air burst is too situational for most uses. As armour gets more and more resilient, I think we'll see explosives like that being used on and by infantry.

>Air burst is too situational for most uses.
>most uses
The 101st disagrees with that, they wanted to swap an m4 out completely to use the XM25 on patrol. And a PAW is going to be more situational. Just as heavy, just as bulky and just as limited an ammo supply except now you're not able to use the main capability that differentiates it from the grenade launchers they're already issued.

Okay, so do you think the crayon eaters will use that shit effectively?

Straight up that looks like an American AN-94

They manage to use far more complicated shit, so yes.

Stupid humans are fine just using the same gun design for 100+ years meanwhile manufacturers are itching to put sci-fi stuff out there

Ist it worth the supression value of a he 20mm cartridge? What lethal radius do they have?

Radius is kind of a moot point, since you can get 5 in the air in the same time it takes to fire a single 40mm, at twice the effective range and also "300% the effectiveness of other squad level grande launchers"; however you're supposed to quantify that..

To be honest I have no idea why they didn't just step back and design a top-mounted rail attached single-shot design with the scope integrated right in. That would've been fast, cheap, and easy and didn't actually delete one half of the OICW just to get the grenades. Most of the time you're going to be shooting the carbine anyway, but when you need a programmable air-burst grenade it would be a godsend.

Kind of like this except without shit optics:

1m lethal radius.

came here to post this

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It's also worth noting that the 20mm cartridges the PAW-20 uses are the same payloads as the BIG 20mm rounds.
>The 20x42 mm cartridge was specifically developed for the PAW-20 by Denel PMP, decreasing the overall weight and size of the weapon, and enabling it to hold more rounds in the magazine, (compared to weapons of similar purpose and design, such as the XM25 CDTE, which typical fired 25mm or larger grenades.)[clarification needed] It has a muzzle velocity of 310 m/s (1,000 ft/s), and a much flatter trajectory than the more common 40mm grenade launcher round. A number of less-than-lethal rounds are also available for the PAW-20.[4]
Has anyone tried suppressing one of these? Load it down a little bit and you're shooting subsonics.

>gook space magic.jpeg
FTFY

5m was the goal, but they never released data to confirm that. The XM25 (25mm grenades) claimed the same kill radius but as actual achieved value not a goal.

>nothing
Don’t you see the proto ACOG on that? That’s where the ACOG came from.

No its not. The acog had already been on the market for ~2 years when the ACR was submitted for testing.