Do you know if a squad are armed with both Barret M107 .50cal Sniper Rifles, FGM-148 Javelin, and XM-25 Smart Grenade Launchers, they can be unstoppable as XM-25 Smart Grenade Launchers will forces the enemies to leaves their covers only to be sniped by Barret M107 .50cal Sniper Rifles and FGM-148 Javelin will makes short work of their armored vehicles if they calls Armored Vehicles to aids them, so when Barret M107 .50cal Sniper Rifles, FGM-148 Javelin, and XM-25 Smart Grenade Launchers combined together, they can be unstoppable, that's why they are most favorite US infantry weapons.

Im purdy sure the Germans thought the same when they entered Stalingrad "unstoppable"

Powerful weapons yes but unstoppable no. Each one has its down side, the Javelin exposes to much of the operators body stand out like a sore thumb ring a bell. The XM-25 is just the same as a shouldered rifle if your shooting down range and a combatant pops at your 7 you will have to adjust fire taking time to acquire the new target and pausing your rate of fire which can give a combatant an opportunity to get a good shot in.
Barret m107 is a powerful weapon but if a combatant sniper has already acquired high ground he can render a sniper team combat ineffective.

Originally posted by hillbilly4rent
Im purdy sure the Germans thought the same when they entered Stalingrad "unstoppable"

Powerful weapons yes but unstoppable no. Each one has its down side, the Javelin exposes to much of the operators body stand out like a sore thumb ring a bell. The XM-25 is just the same as a shouldered rifle if your shooting down range and a combatant pops at your 7 you will have to adjust fire taking time to acquire the new target and pausing your rate of fire which can give a combatant an opportunity to get a good shot in.
Barret m107 is a powerful weapon but if a combatant sniper has already acquired high ground he can render a sniper team combat ineffective.

Why?

Originally posted by masonicon

Why?

Why what?

Originally posted by hillbilly4rent

Originally posted by masonicon

Why?

Why what?

I think Barret M107 .50cal Sniper Rifles, FGM-148 Javelin, and XM-25 Smart Grenade Launchers are the most overhyped infantry weapons of USA?

Originally posted by masonicon

Originally posted by hillbilly4rent

Originally posted by masonicon

Why?

Why what?

I think Barret M107 .50cal Sniper Rifles, FGM-148 Javelin, and XM-25 Smart Grenade Launchers are the most overhyped infantry weapons of USA?

Extremely expensive. New and unreliable compared to proven weaponry. Heavy to carry around, especially the ammo. Good trophies for the enemy.

Originally posted by masonicon
I think Barret M107 .50cal Sniper Rifles, FGM-148 Javelin, and XM-25 Smart Grenade Launchers are the most overhyped infantry weapons of USA?

Im not sure about the XM-25 been out for a few years, Have shot a barrett 95 not in theater though big and cumbersome I was a Javelin operator for a long time.

All of those seem like great weapons but they need to be used the right way.

This isn't like Call of Duty where you got a guy walking around with a sniper rifle, a guy walking around with a grenade launcher, and a guy with a rocket launcher... but I do think that one man being issued a XM25 in the squad can help. Similar to how the M203 or SAW is currently issued to a member of the fireteam for support.

Alot of people seem to think that the XM25 is going to replace the M16/M4 and that'll never happen. But replacing the traditional Vietnam-era grenade launcher we use now with the XM25, I think that's a possibility. Of course it will take time to field new equipment assuming all testing goes 100% well, but I see the XM25 as a progression of the need to launch explosives for semi-long distances against infantry, like the M7, M79,and M203. It's cool that the technology has lasted this long but there's no reason to not take advantage of new technologies that's emerged since then.

I think the reason XM-25 is the OICW Weapons that isn't cancelled is this is the most overhyped weapons ever and you know when Barret M107 .50cal Sniper Rifles, FGM-148 Javelins, XM-25 Smart Grenade Launchers are combined with #ty M4A1 Carbine and M249, this can be a easily formula for the Redshirt Army

Originally posted by RSF77
You say that about everything that is American, despite not knowing anything about these technologies. The very internet you use to make these comments was conceived by the same people who make this stuff.

The XM-25 wasn't designed as a primary weapon.

edit on 24-1-2011 by RSF77 because: (no reason given)

I know more than I need to know.

And I'll repeat it: these weapons are large, heavy, expensive and need specialized training. Not any regular GI carries these things around.