High Impulse Weapon System

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The man said it's like a shoulder-fired 80mm mortar. But it appears very difficult to control. Still going to need a four man team to carry it and it's ammo around.

Maybe it's better suited to a tripod of vehicular mount. Or to the first-person shooter video game world. :rolleyes:
 
That was at the 2003 Shootout at Blackwater.

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/blackwater/?s=2003_main2

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After experiencing the .408's relatively low recoil, the evaluators found quite a contrast just a few short steps away. There, nestled among FNH's more familiar offerings, was a prototype, shoulder-fired system with a truly intimidating tube - 76mm, to be precise. Through that 3-inch-wide opening - a baseball-sized hole -- the High-Impulse Weapon System (HIWS) is capable of hurling the 2.2-pound payload of a 3.3-pound round more than 700 yards in an indirect-fire mode. In a direct-fire role, the HIWS can engage targets out to 300 yards.

Manufactured by Lacroix Pyro-Technologies of France, the HIWS will be marketed by the FNH team. Touting a sophisticated recoil-mitigation system, the weapon produces no back blast and no overpressure, making it possible to fire the system from an enclosed space - even from inside a vehicle. The HIWS is also relatively quiet: Ear protection isn't needed when firing the system.

Despite a quick rundown on how to arm and fire the HIWS, some of the evaluators clearly had reservations about the system's imposing size and equally imposing statistics. A couple of questions that probably flashed through their minds were: How large a bruise can be caused by a maximum projectile acceleration of 65,600 ft.sec-2? And just how much shoulder pain should be expected from a firing impulse of 22.5 pounds per second?

Perhaps these questions went unasked because Lacroix engineers are considering developing an 84mm HIWS, which would make the 76mm version something akin to a girly-man system. For whatever reasons, our fearless evaluators rose to the challenge.

But one failed to heed the salesman's twice-proffered advice to keep 80 percent of his body weight on his forward foot: A trigger pull later, he did a 180-degree spin to his right, stumbled three steps sideways, and ended up on his butt. And he isn't a little guy. Subsequent shooters didn't have to be reminded.

Lacroix engineers actually have plans for an 84mm HIWS; they've already developed a 66mm version; and they're working on a 40mm variant that's sure to be offered to U.S. forces.

Despite any pain our evaluators suffered firing the 76mm variant, there was nearly universal agreement that the concept is, in fact, worth pursuing. "Excellent potential for less-lethal payloads," noted one. "Great idea," said another. "Its possible uses include less-lethal weapons applications. I'd like to see further development of this concept."

"Tremendous potential to provide the dismounted infantryman with lightweight, shoulder-fired lethality at ranges well beyond our current family of munitions," another observed. "Awesome potential to place 2.2-pound warheads 300 to 400 meters downrange to defeat various target sets."

Other comments suggested that Lacroix designers continue developing and improving the system with an eye toward evolving it from an area weapon to a point weapon system, and that they figure out a way for a shooter to use the HIWS from a prone firing position.
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Does this take care of the "which gun for bear?" threads once and for all? :D
 
is it some kind of joke?
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the joke is the last guy in the video that fired the thing.

what's the point?

what is the owner of that weapon going to shoot with it?

deer? caribou? moose? squirrel? roaches? zombies?

where's your tin hat?

is there any intelligent life left on this planet?

<rhetorical question. i'm not really interested in a response.>
 
Well your gonna get a response weather you like it or not :p
what is the owner of that weapon going to shoot with it?
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What sporting purpose* does it serve?
None, but it dosnt have to answer that question to anyone but the buyer.

Looks like its suited to be a large grenade launcher or anti armor weapon without the drawback of back blast. In this day and age, a warhead of that size can be made to do many interesting things.
My only concern is that this and other toys get to be in the hands of someone like blackwater but probly never into the hands of regular civilians.

*note: this is the kind of question everyone asks about many pistols and rifles in civilian hands, including the "easily concealed" .50bmg and "cop killer" five and seven. Within reason, it shouldnt be anyone elses business but the shooters.
 
It would classify in the U.S. under the NFA as a "Destructive Device". That's any arm that uses "fixed ammunition" (i.e. one-piece shell and propellant) with a bore diameter over .50 caliber.

Sidebar: Common firearms like shotguns that have a bore well over .50 caliber are exempted from the Destructive Device list by the Secretary of the Treasury under the "Sporting Use" guidelines.

One super-anti Treasury Secretary and all shotguns could suddenly be NFA, cozy thoughts, no?..

The rub over owning a Destructve Device is that each round of ammunition is also an NFA item, subject to a $200 tax.
 
http://marstar.ca/specials/VZ-52-82mm.shtm

"what's the point?
what is the owner of that weapon going to shoot with it?
deer? caribou? moose? squirrel? roaches? zombies?"


If it's not doing anyone else any harm, then there's absolutely no reason for people not to have them. Incidentally I'd love one, though I'd use a mount. Spent my savings on a vehicle, instead though.

You really ought to go to the race-track and use your argument on the owners there:) "What do you need that car for? You move it around on a trailer, where are you going to drive it? For what purpose? Are you lacking intelligence?"

Lol, if you were my mother you'd be allowed to talk like that, but not strangers.
 
Thanks for that link Warbow! Some good vids! That Polyshok concept is interesting and that AA-12 full auto shotgun made me blush!
 
How the mere Hunter sees the 2nd Amendment:

"A Well Regulated Hunting Club, being necessary for the management of wildlife populations, the right of the people to keep and bear singleshot shotguns, .22 rifles, and bolt action ought-sixes shall not be infringed".

Im sick and tired of hunters who think that the 2nd Amendment has ANYTHING to do with hunting!
 
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