{"id":9578,"date":"2011-02-24T01:12:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T06:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2011-02-21T03:13:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T08:13:35","slug":"xm25-punisher-sees-combat-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/xm25-punisher-sees-combat-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"XM25 Punisher Sees Combat in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army&#8217;s latest technological marvel for the average Soldier has reportedly seen combat in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The XM25 is an anti-defillade weapon, using lasers and programmable shells to deny the enemy the opportunity to hide behind protective cover.\u00a0 Dubbed &#8220;the Punisher,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2011\/02\/army-xm25-punisher-battlefield-test-021411w\/\">XM25 has seen limited use in Afghanistan<\/a> in an experimental status, but it has received continuous praise:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All five prototypes were sent to Afghanistan in November. Officials are putting the final touches on data and analysis, but said Col. Douglas Tamilio, project manager for soldier weapons, said the weapons \u201cperformed flawlessly\u201d and no maintenance issues showed.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers have been so pleased with the XM25 that they are carrying it as a primary weapon, and not bothering to bring an M4 as a secondary weapon, said Maj. Christopher Conley, who monitored the employment of XM25 on behalf of PEO Soldier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The XM25 is in &#8220;pre-production&#8221; and the deployment to Afghanistan was another layer of testing.\u00a0 In fact, the article says the rounds were hand-built, and cost $1,000 a piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army&#8217;s latest technological marvel for the average Soldier has reportedly seen combat in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The XM25 is an anti-defillade weapon, using lasers and programmable shells to deny the enemy the opportunity to hide behind protective cover.\u00a0 Dubbed &#8220;the Punisher,&#8221; the XM25 has seen limited use in Afghanistan in an experimental status, but it has received continuous praise:\u00a0<\/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":[58,88,5285,2,523],"class_list":["post-9578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-xm-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578","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=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}