i-Grenade anyone?
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A great idea and even better if it works well in practice.
That said, in these days of fiscal cuts, tighter budgets and credit crunch I can't see it getting any further than SF use. I mean can you imagine the problems the CQMS is going to have with the idea.... "It's like a grenade that doesn't go bang? It costs how much? And you want me to issue it to you? So you can just throw it away?"
That said, in these days of fiscal cuts, tighter budgets and credit crunch I can't see it getting any further than SF use. I mean can you imagine the problems the CQMS is going to have with the idea.... "It's like a grenade that doesn't go bang? It costs how much? And you want me to issue it to you? So you can just throw it away?"
Plant-Pilot said:
A great idea and even better if it works well in practice.
That said, in these days of fiscal cuts, tighter budgets and credit crunch I can't see it getting any further than SF use. I mean can you imagine the problems the CQMS is going to have with the idea.... "It's like a grenade that doesn't go bang? It costs how much? And you want me to issue it to you? So you can just throw it away?"
That said, in these days of fiscal cuts, tighter budgets and credit crunch I can't see it getting any further than SF use. I mean can you imagine the problems the CQMS is going to have with the idea.... "It's like a grenade that doesn't go bang? It costs how much? And you want me to issue it to you? So you can just throw it away?"
Okay... while the concept is interesting and potentially usefull for law enforcement, I'd like to hear how well it will work in the real world for soldiers. Throwing something that looks like a grenade into a building tends to get the folks inside riled up and they do nasty things like trigger their claymores and fire controlled bursts at the entry points... also.. that troopie who's watching an LCD screen to see what the device is looking at is not covering his assgned sector of fire... which is never a good thing. Now... on the other hand... thumping a 40mm HEDP or tossing a real hand grenade into the same location tends to avoid the unpleasant aspects of entering a defended structure...
In some situations you are of course right.
However, using an iGrenade in less 'hot' situations will save ammo clearing empty rooms, save civilian lives 'clearing' an occupied room that has no hostiles.
I know that if I was in a room and saw an iGrenade land on the floor, I would know I was rumbled, and that it would shortly be followed by a 'not so i' Grenade if I didn't give up.
However, using an iGrenade in less 'hot' situations will save ammo clearing empty rooms, save civilian lives 'clearing' an occupied room that has no hostiles.
I know that if I was in a room and saw an iGrenade land on the floor, I would know I was rumbled, and that it would shortly be followed by a 'not so i' Grenade if I didn't give up.
Someone else other than the troopie could look through the eye. Section 29c or the errr "Greneyedier". Perhaps this guy could be held in the Plt HQ.
If it causes the Claymores to be fired when people AREN`T in the way, even better.
Problem with throwing REAL grenades in to houses in, for example, down town Basra; the people inside might just be havinga bad day.
One minute some loon comes in and declares Jihad from the kiddies bedroom window, then some Brtish Soldiers destroy the decor and smash the crockery with a mills bomb.
Or they get looked at inquistively with a mk2 eyeball?
The uses for these are quite varied. Hopefully the MoD will buy the design outright, and the patent, then sell them. This would bring the unit cost down, and thus they would be more expendable.
Their use by frontline tps, SF, EOD, SAR (Caving, or after earth quakes) and in various industrial arenas (checking inside pipes for example) could then help the MoD pay for the development costs.
If it causes the Claymores to be fired when people AREN`T in the way, even better.
Problem with throwing REAL grenades in to houses in, for example, down town Basra; the people inside might just be havinga bad day.
One minute some loon comes in and declares Jihad from the kiddies bedroom window, then some Brtish Soldiers destroy the decor and smash the crockery with a mills bomb.
Or they get looked at inquistively with a mk2 eyeball?
The uses for these are quite varied. Hopefully the MoD will buy the design outright, and the patent, then sell them. This would bring the unit cost down, and thus they would be more expendable.
Their use by frontline tps, SF, EOD, SAR (Caving, or after earth quakes) and in various industrial arenas (checking inside pipes for example) could then help the MoD pay for the development costs.
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