{"id":106281,"date":"2020-04-30T12:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-research-shows-the-army-could-soon-develop-a-rifle-with-hyper-velocity-rounds"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:36:26","slug":"new-research-shows-the-army-could-soon-develop-a-rifle-with-hyper-velocity-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-research-shows-the-army-could-soon-develop-a-rifle-with-hyper-velocity-rounds","title":{"rendered":"New research shows the Army could soon develop a rifle with hyper-velocity rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-shows-the-army-could-soon-develop-a-rifle-with-hyper-velocity-rounds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But perhaps soldiers should be glad that the Army didn\u2019t go with the infamous Heckler &amp; Koch G11 or the futuristic XM29 OICW, or the ill-fated XM8 assault rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a very conventional rifle firing the 5.56 NATO round, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techlinkcenter.org\/us-army-researchers-are-turning-it-up-to-11-to-make-hypervelocity-firearms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Army is now rapidly progressing<\/a> towards developing and field-testing a new weapon that can double the muzzle speeds of a bullet.<\/p>\n<p>The primary advantages to this new (and no-so-new) technology are insane armor-penetration capabilities at close ranges, and next-level accuracy at longer ranges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 But perhaps soldiers should be glad that the Army didn\u2019t go with the infamous Heckler &amp; Koch G11 or the futuristic XM29 OICW, or the ill-fated XM8 assault rifle. Instead of a very conventional rifle firing the 5.56 NATO round, the Army is now rapidly progressing towards developing and field-testing a new weapon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}