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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
It's a belt-fed heavy automatic weapon, in a slightly larger caliber. It's probably quite fair to compare it to the payload rifle, which is semi-portable and semi-auto. Maybe not to the underbarrel launcher - underbarrel and stand-alone long-arm launchers usually have muzzle velocities that are much lower than heavy weapons like the AGS-17 (around 1/3 as fast).
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A 25mm ET UBGL has twice the range of the AGS-17, so it's presumably a higher velocity round, though the round is also lighter (Somehow the whole 25mmPC is about half the weight of the AGS-17
projectile). So energy may well be
higher, fired from a platform that is both much lighter and not secured by a tripod.
The ET payload rifle, meanwhile, has a heavier round than the AGS-17, though it's impossible to tell how the actual projectiles correspond to each other. We also know that the payload rifle throws its round 7.5 times the distance, so energy is probably
much higher, in a weapon system that weighs a third as much (Sorry, a
quarter as much; I was forgetting the weight of the AGS-17's tripod).
Neither of these sound like a fun time.
(Edit: as a note, the XM-25 has a max range of only 1100 yards, a mere third of the 25mm ET UBGL's 3300)