Weapons: China Builds A Lighter OICW

[xhw1986]

China has joined the United States and South Korea in developing a weapon that combines a 5.56mm assault rife with a computer controlled 20mm grenade launcher. The U.S. began working on this back in the 1990s as the OICW (Objective Individual Combat Weapon) and that mutated into the XM25 (the “X” in XM25 designates a system that is still in development). The Chinese weapon is called ZH-05 while the South Korean one is the K11. The three weapons are different in important ways.

The American and South Korean weapons both have a magazine for the computer controlled grenades while the ZH-05 is a single shot weapon, requiring 20mm rounds to be loaded manually each time. This makes the ZH-05 the lightest of the three weapons, weighing five kg (11 pounds) loaded (with a single 20mm round and a magazine with 20 rounds of 5.8mm ammo). The M25 got rid of the assault rifle element and upped the caliber to 25mm. Thus an M25, with a four round magazine, weighs 5.5 kg while the K11, loaded with a 20 round 5.56mm and five round 20mm magazines weighs 7.2 kg. The M25 is the only one of three to have been tested in combat.

The Chinese ZH-05 has three types of 20mm ammo. One is impact detonation, the second is air burst and the third is a shotgun type shell. The computerized fire control system only provides for the user to select at what range the air burst round will detonate. Because these 20mm rounds have fewer electronics in them they carry more fragments and the Chinese believe (but don’t know from combat experience) that this supplies adequate wounding capability.

Weapons: China Builds A Lighter OICW

 

[qwerrty]

here's the original source. more details than that strategypage crap
China Defense Blog: ZH-05 OICW

 

[conworldus]

Since when China has 5.56mm?

 

[PurpleButcher]

Since when China has 5.56mm?

They thought about it last week. Stole designs 6 days back by hacking. Manufactured them using their huge manufacturing infrastructure 5 days back. Distributed all of them amongst PLA 4 days back. Did photo sessions and released the info to media/internet 3 days back. And for the last two days Pakdef is discussing it

 

[Skull and Bones]

The design is futuristic and aweful at the same time.

 

[Genesis]

The design is futuristic and aweful at the same time.

This is a break through weapon, these weapons are programmable. Meaning, they can program how far this projectile would go before exploding.

I'll show a XM-25 Video with Battlefield 4 explanation. This is like that, but XM-25 has no standard ammunition part, while Chinese one is single shot, both done to reduce weight. Koreans didn't, their gun is freaking heavy, by almost 3KG, while 2KG with XM-25.