Military platoons equipped with XM25 grenade launchers may no longer need to call in air strikes, artillery bombardments, or reinforcements to get them out of hot spots. Instead, they'd use the semiautomatic XM25 to rapidly fire 25-mm grenades that would explode directly over enemies up to 2,100-ft away and take them out. The new XM25 uses a laser range finder to determine distance to the target, and a thermal sight helps locate targets at night or in bad weather. The $25,000-weapon weighs about 18 lb, and can carry four rounds in an oversized magazine. The military plans on buying 12,5000 of the weapons from the maker, Heckler & Koch, Newington, NH.
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