Reply to: CSI NY Exploding Bullets.

[centurian]

Surely the 'best' part about CSI are the semi-transparent monitors...

[EternalOptimist]

One of my less entertaining jobs in the military was bullet catching. exploding bullets would have made this almost impossible. The idea was, in order to avoid unnecessary waste, to catch all bullets that were missing the target on the firing range. You needed a quick eye and good reflexes in order to leap to the left or the right to catch the darned things.
As it was a slightly dangerous occupation we were allowed to use our own kit, so I used to wear an oven glove with an old sock stuffed inside it.

this is just a fkng plausible as that stoopid NY CSI bolks

[TimberWolf]

They tend to explode if you whack them with a hammer while secured in a vice in your school metalwork class

Testicles?

[ThomasSoerensen]

They tend to explode if you whack them with a hammer while secured in a vice in your school metalwork class

so you have heard from a friend. Or what?

[darmstadt]

They tend to explode if you whack them with a hammer while secured in a vice in your school metalwork class

[ThomasSoerensen]

It sounds like what I saw was some alpha/beta/protptype of the XM25 system.

It did not look as polished as the XM25.

But I guess the XM25 was not what was used in the CSI NY "docutainment" show.

[Bunk]

I think you mean the XM25

You mean this ?

The XM-25, by any chance?

New US Army rifles use radio-controlled smart bullets to be used in Afghanistan | Mail Online ?

Edit: beaten to it by the Chimp

Hmm, I think it might have been the XM25

[TimberWolf]

I have seen somewhere (most likely youtube documentary) about some experimental rifle and bullet system where you could program the bullet to explode at a certain range - they used them to shoot through a window and make the bullet explode inside the room and hit people with fragments even if people were hiding next to the window.

But this was electronically controlled and still experimental. Maybe it is deployed now.

And of course I cannot find a link now.

New US Army rifles use radio-controlled smart bullets to be used in Afghanistan | Mail Online ?

Edit: beaten to it by the Chimp

[NickFitz]

I have seen somewhere (most likely youtube documentary) about some experimental rifle and bullet system where you could program the bullet to explode at a certain range - they used them to shoot through a window and make the bullet explode inside the room and hit people with fragments even if people were hiding next to the window.

But this was electronically controlled and still experimental. Maybe it is deployed now.

And of course I cannot find a link now.

The XM-25, by any chance?

[Toastiness]

I have seen somewhere (most likely youtube documentary) about some experimental rifle and bullet system where you could program the bullet to explode at a certain range - they used them to shoot through a window and make the bullet explode inside the room and hit people with fragments even if people were hiding next to the window.

But this was electronically controlled and still experimental. Maybe it is deployed now.

And of course I cannot find a link now.

You mean this ?

[TykeMerc]

Ah, that hogwash.

It is of course possible to manufacture bullets that actually explode, but it's a tad more complex an ordinance than a bullet drilled out filled with nitro and plugged with wax

[amcdonald]

I have seen somewhere (most likely youtube documentary) about some experimental rifle and bullet system where you could program the bullet to explode at a certain range - they used them to shoot through a window and make the bullet explode inside the room and hit people with fragments even if people were hiding next to the window.

But this was electronically controlled and still experimental. Maybe it is deployed now.

And of course I cannot find a link now.

I think you mean the XM25

[ThomasSoerensen]

I have seen somewhere (most likely youtube documentary) about some experimental rifle and bullet system where you could program the bullet to explode at a certain range - they used them to shoot through a window and make the bullet explode inside the room and hit people with fragments even if people were hiding next to the window.

But this was electronically controlled and still experimental. Maybe it is deployed now.

And of course I cannot find a link now.

[DimPrawn]

Never watched CSI, what were they claiming that exploding bullets do?

Go bang.

[TykeMerc]

Never watched CSI, what were they claiming that exploding bullets do?