The Army Created A Smart Grenade That Will Definitely Ruin Some Terrorist’s Day
Image via United States Army, United States National Guard
Technology and arms are awesome by themselves, but when you put the two together, you get one hell of a combination. First, we had the laser gun. Now we can add a smart grenade to the military’s repertoire. The smart grenade is designed to locate targets and explode on its own. How awesome is that? Really fucking awesome.
From FOX News:
The U.S. Army is developing the SAGM, Small Arms Grenade Munitions round.
The SAGM is a new kind of grenade that can find an enemy hiding behind an object, a wall or other would-be cover.
At this point, the American military is only trying to one-up themselves. There is no real competition. Which only means bad things for the terrorists. So what makes this thing smart?
When the SAGM is fired, the grenade will recognize its surroundings and the cover used by the enemy for concealment. It then detonates over the target.
The SAGM is an air-bursting grenade and more than doubles the lethality of the current 40-mm grenade against targets that are not directly in a soldier’s line of sight.
Making something already pretty lethal even more lethal is definitely a TFM. Try hiding now, assholes. You can’t hide from these smart, bad boys. They are pretty easy to use as well. They program themselves and probably won’t require any new training for our soldiers.
Using an SAGM, a soldier will not need to do any sort of pre-fire programming sequence. The soldier just needs to accurately aim the weapon and fire — the smart grenade will take care of the rest. While in the air the SAGM will detect walls, without even relying on a range finder. After it passes the wall, the SAGM explodes itself in the air above the target.
Look at the scoreboard. We’re up 2-0 in World Wars. Sit on it and spin, terrorism..
[via FOX News]
I think it’s time for the next installment of “America: Big Swinging Dick Of The World.”
11 years ago at 3:25 pmWe’ve had these for years, TFM is just slow on the story and desperate to write something about America to hide how fucking communist they really are.
11 years ago at 8:54 amI’m not an expert on the matter so correct me if I’m wrong, but you might be confusing this smart grenade with the XM-25.
11 years ago at 10:41 amas cool as this sounds, there is no way in hell that they would ever issue those to us downrange.
11 years ago at 3:28 pmIt truly amazes me that’s people try to fuck with us, I mean we invent smart grenades and some country’s are using freshly painted 50 year old soviet shit.
11 years ago at 3:30 pmWhat happens when someone tries to launch it over a wall and on it’s way back down it can’t decide which side of the wall to go?
11 years ago at 3:31 pmThe way it’s worded it seems as if there isn’t an actual guidance system, but just a range finder to determine when to detonate.
11 years ago at 3:40 pm“While in the air the SAGM will detect walls, without even relying on a range finder.”
11 years ago at 3:55 pmI honestly couldn’t give less of a fuck.
11 years ago at 8:10 pmcan you read?
11 years ago at 6:12 pmI don’t know if it’s hand thrown like the mk67 or like a m203 round. That would be a key piece of information that’s missing
11 years ago at 4:12 pmActually I take that back it does say it’s fired. I’ll lace up.
11 years ago at 4:20 pmFuck terrorism!
11 years ago at 3:46 pmThat grenade has Texas tech listed as a safety school.
11 years ago at 4:37 pmAs much as I love the US Military and how we will undoubtedly rail terrorists with this, I give it 10 years tops until Campus Police stations start getting these.
11 years ago at 12:12 amRumor has it that one overzealous campus police officer may have already obtained one of these.
Take the hint Bacon. #ToddStorm2015
11 years ago at 11:08 am