06-27-2018, 04:36 PM | #11 |
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Re: The 20mm LAG, today
Depends on what you load it with. It takes the 20mm projectiles that originated with the MG151/20, most of which are explosive and/or incendiary. South Africa produced the MG151/20 as an aircraft weapon post-WWII, and so the projectiles are available there -- the South African arms industry has some odd things in use.
So the LAG doesn't have the fancy airbust-at-laser-measured-distance functions of the OICW, but it has projectiles that will detonate shortly after going through a shett of glass, wood or thin metal,
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06-27-2018, 08:34 PM | #12 |
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Re: The 20mm LAG, today
This also means you don't have to fire twice (once with the laser, once with the gun) and the ammo is much, much cheaper.
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06-28-2018, 12:30 AM | #13 |
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06-28-2018, 06:54 AM | #14 | |
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Re: The 20mm LAG, today
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Nobody was making grenades airburst by shooting them with lasers and I don't see why that would be proposed with a future weapon.
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06-28-2018, 12:37 PM | #15 |
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Re: The 20mm LAG, today
I'd still rather arm troops with it than the XM-25.
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06-28-2018, 12:40 PM | #16 |
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Re: The 20mm LAG, today
I said nothing about shooting the grenade with the laser. I was referring to painting the target with the targeting laser so the grenade warhead could get proper range information. In that respect "shooting the laser" was a poor phrase choice.
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