Artemus написал(а):
anderman написал(а):
его опять принимают на вооружение.
Не опять.
Таки он был экспериментальным, зато сейчас станет серийным. Несмотря ни на что.
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Lt. Col. Shawn Lucas, the PEO Soldier program manager for individual weapons at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., said the
XM25 is currently in the "engineering and manufacturing development phase," not yet ready for fielding...
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It'll be about August of next year, he said, when the Army would ask decision makers to move to a "milestone C" decision with the system. That will allow them to start low-rate initial production, or LRIP, and manufacture a little more than 1,100 of the weapons, along with the needed ammunition. The LRIP decision will help prove out manufacturing processes for the weapon, the fire control and the ammunition. Additionally, those systems would then be used to do operational and live-fire testing...
...Right now, Lucas said the
Army is working to make more improvements to the design of the XM25, in particular to the fire control system. He also said there has been a lot of feedback concerning battery life, weight, and the size of the magazine.
Were a milestone decision to come in 2014, he said, much of 2015 would be spent testing the system, including initial operational tests, as well as the live-fire tests. They would also need to do weapons qualification, and additionally qualify the fire controls and ammunition produced off the manufacturing lines...
http://www.army.mil/article/109049/XM25 ... xt_August/