{"id":8284,"date":"2010-11-30T00:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2010-11-29T00:54:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:54:56","slug":"xm25-deployed-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/xm25-deployed-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"XM25 Deployed to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/soldiers-get-high-powered-high-tech-toys\/\">previously noted<\/a>, the Air Force isn&#8217;t the only service with lethal technological toys.<\/p>\n<p>The Army has reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/11\/24\/armys-revolutionary-rifle-use-afghanistan\/\">fielded the XM25 in Afghanistan<\/a>.\u00a0 The rifle-sized &#8220;Counter Defilade Target Engagement System&#8221; enables a Soldier to fire a projectile that will explode at a specific point in space; in short, he can kill the enemy hiding behind a wall.<\/p>\n<p>With reports of increasing airstrikes and tanks being moved into Afghanistan, the XM25 may be another indicator of the military&#8217;s attempts to prevent a &#8220;fair&#8221; fight with its adversaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously noted, the Air Force isn&#8217;t the only service with lethal technological toys. The Army has reportedly fielded the XM25 in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The rifle-sized &#8220;Counter Defilade Target Engagement System&#8221; enables a Soldier to fire a projectile that will explode at a specific point in space; in short, he can kill the enemy hiding behind a wall. With reports of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58,2,523],"class_list":["post-8284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-military","tag-xm-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}