.950 JDJ Rifle.

[TonyU]

1. Why?
2. You'd figure they would put a better scope on the damn thing and...
3. I want to see the impacts.

.950 JDJ Rifle. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xohy9gWz7kk)

[Tripitaka of AA]

1. Because one day, maybe Chuck Norris might need help to save the earth.
2. The target that needs that rifle, is big enough to see without a scope.
3. The impacts are the size of a dinner-plate and can be seen from the moon without a telescope.

[Webmaster]

Total insanity. That is not a rifle, that is an artillery piece. It has absolutely no practical use that I can see. If they really do want to make this somewhat practical, then they need some type of recoil buffer.

[tgace334]

What can it do that the .50 BMG cannot?

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[torbjork]

1. Why?
- Because some people need to impress their buddies at the range, and buying the .950 means, as far as I understand, that you basically own a Destructive Device without needing to jump through all those hoops ;)

2. You'd figure they would put a better scope on the damn thing and...
- Why put a good (indeed any) scope on it? It will be rattled into its constituent parts after five shots!

3. I want to see the impacts.
- Ditto. Apparently it shoots bronze rather than lead projectiles, it'd be fun to see (from behind cover) the effect on, say, a concrete block.

[Don Roley]

1- Because if the dead rise from their graves during the zombie apocalypse, those living next to the La Brea tar pits might see have to deal with dinosaurs.
2- you don't need a scope. If it is anywhere down range the damn blast would kill it.
3- No impact. Anything hit by that thing ceases to exist.

[Erik]

I just think someone is trying to compensate for something....

[Abbax8]

In a world of one shoulder people, the person with two shoulders is King !

Dennis

[Erik]

Would that have any use as an anti-material rifle? Knock out things like LAVs? Just wondering.

[Tripitaka of AA]

lav (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lav) or LAV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_armoured_vehicle)? I think I understand what I thought you said, but what I am not so sure about is whether what I think I heard is what you think you meant.

[Erik]

Light armored vehicles, like the USMC LAV, older APCs like the BTR, and so on.

[jjaje]

That's one expensive round.

Weapon development that is more interesting to me than a .950 caliber rifle are guided bullets

Self guided bullets (http://www.dailytech.com/SelfGuided+Bullet+is+a+Soldiers+Best+Friend/article23927.htm)

[De_Franza]

Good greif!
I'm no firearms expert, but even I can see that needs to be mounted on a vehicle or some-such.
That said, it must be intoxicating to fire it.