{"id":6822,"date":"2010-12-10T08:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T12:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2011-02-13T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T16:39:15","slug":"us-army-to-equip-troops-with-xm-25-manpack-artillery-by-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/us-army-to-equip-troops-with-xm-25-manpack-artillery-by-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army to equip troops with XM-25 manpack artillery by 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

The XM-25, which The Register<\/em> refers to as a Judge Dredd smartgun<\/a> will be provided to front-line troops by 2014:<\/p>\n

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The US Army has confirmed plans to equip every infantry squad and special-forces team by 2014 with an XM-25 Judge Dredd style computer smartgun able to hit enemies hiding around corners or behind rocks etc.<\/p>\n

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The XM-25 has been widely covered in the media recently, despite the fact that the last piece of actual news regarding the futuristic weapon — that it would at long last be put in the hands of US combat troops, in Afghanistan — came back in October, as we here on the Reg<\/em> crazy-guns desk reported at the time (getting the tip from the Soldier Systems blog). However we also mentioned it about six weeks later in our widely-read Thanksgiving crazy-guns-o-the-future feature — and shortly thereafter the XM-25’s Afghan deployment decision was in all the mainstream outlets as “news”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The XM-25, which The Register refers to as a Judge Dredd smartgun will be provided to front-line troops by 2014: The US Army has confirmed plans to equip every infantry squad and special-forces team by 2014 with an XM-25 Judge Dredd style computer smartgun able to hit enemies hiding around corners or behind rocks etc. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,13,663],"tags":[218,31,49],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1M2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7785,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions\/7785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}