Lethal Mixture (The Good Kind)
What do you get when you add one part thermobaric explosive technology, one part lightweight weapons systems, and mix it all up with some American ingenuity? A best-of-breed shoulder-mounted weapon capable of staggering devastation. Other nations have versions of this technology, and have for some time, but ours is better. Which is why the Marines have been sort of quiet about the SMAW-NE and its strengths in urban combat.
It proved itself in spades on the deadly streets of Fallujah in 2004, which is why afterwards The Marine Corps Systems Command Program Manager for Ammunition at Quantico, VA responded by ponying up some decent cash to buy a stockpile of the enhanced ordnance from Talley Defense Systems in Mesa, AZ. At $4,700 each, the warheads aren't cheap, but compare that to the ability to flatten a structure with one trigger pull ...
It proved itself in spades on the deadly streets of Fallujah in 2004, which is why afterwards The Marine Corps Systems Command Program Manager for Ammunition at Quantico, VA responded by ponying up some decent cash to buy a stockpile of the enhanced ordnance from Talley Defense Systems in Mesa, AZ. At $4,700 each, the warheads aren't cheap, but compare that to the ability to flatten a structure with one trigger pull ...