{"id":7330,"date":"2010-12-12T01:20:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/since-the-dawn-of-modern-warfare-the-best-way-to\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:14:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:14:36","slug":"since-the-dawn-of-modern-warfare-the-best-way-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/since-the-dawn-of-modern-warfare-the-best-way-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7330 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/since-the-dawn-of-modern-warfare-the-best-way-to\/attachment\/7331\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldajqaDTjV1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldajqaDTjV1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldajqaDTjV1qzxaqho1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<blockquote><p>Since the dawn of modern warfare, the best way to stay alive in the face of incoming fire has been to take cover behind a wall. But thanks to a game-changing &ldquo;revolutionary&rdquo; rifle, the U.S. Army has made that tactic dead on arrival. Now the enemy can run, but he can&rsquo;t hide.<\/p>\n<p>After years of development, the U.S. Army has unleashed a new weapon in Afghanistan &ndash; the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System, a high-tech rifle that can be programmed so that its 25-mm. ammunition detonates either in front of or behind a target, meaning it can be fired just above a wall before it explodes and kills the enemy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty amazing technology&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the dawn of modern warfare, the best way to stay alive in the face of incoming fire has been to take cover behind a wall. But thanks to a game-changing &ldquo;revolutionary&rdquo; rifle, the U.S. Army has made that tactic dead on arrival. Now the enemy can run, but he can&rsquo;t hide. After years of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/since-the-dawn-of-modern-warfare-the-best-way-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7332,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}