This is ready to go. It even has anti drone/personnel rounds.
https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/advanced-weapons/the-xm913-bushmaster-chain-gun-developed-for-the-us-armys-xm30
Posted on 03/01/2025 11:09:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an additional 2,500 to 3,000 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border, including soldiers from a motorized brigade equipped with 20-ton armored Stryker combat vehicles, two defense officials familiar with the effort said.
The defense secretary approved the orders Friday, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal Defense Department planning. The soldiers are primarily from the 4th Infantry Division’s 2nd Stryker Brigade at Fort Carson, Colorado, and will be joined by soldiers specializing in engineering, intelligence and public affairs, the officials said.
Officials with U.S. Northern Command, which oversees military operations in the United States, and Pentagon spokesmen John Ullyot and Sean Parnell did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The deployment had been in planning since January and comes despite a sharp drop in border crossings since the Trump administration took office. Hegseth said during a trip to the border in February that all options are on the table to support President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop illegal migration.
The orders are part of a broader, politically fraught military mission that the Trump administration initiated to bolster efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to stop undocumented migrants and drug smugglers from crossing into the United States. Several thousand U.S. troops are already involved, primarily assisting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the detection and apprehension of migrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.
Stryker vehicles — a lightly armored attack vehicle carrying up to 11 soldiers and typically equipped with a machine gun or grenade launcher — have been used in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. More recently, the Biden administration provided some Stryker vehicles to Ukrainian forces, who used them during a cross-border incursion into...
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Then there are cluster munitions which the cartels will find hard to hide from.
The missing key ingredient is authorization to use deadly force.
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They already have it.
The 1500 Marines previously deployed to the border are armed and will respond with fire if fired upon.
This is ready to go. It even has anti drone/personnel rounds.
https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/advanced-weapons/the-xm913-bushmaster-chain-gun-developed-for-the-us-armys-xm30
Better late than never...
That is what it is good for because they can’t survive against an actual military as they are a divebombing gun and have very little resistance to anti-air missiles.
“Cartel retreat imminent”
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Cartel defeat.
If a cross border incursion is necessary to attack them then so be it. Mexico is corrupt and can’t control the cartels so its up to us to push them out of their operating and drug smuggling sanctuaries.
actually, they would resort to going around the US military and strike US citizens in their homes when possible
they would resort to going around the US military and strike US citizens in their homes when possible
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You, of course being in touch with the cartels, know that as a fact?
Doesn’t take a brain trust to figure they’d look for any option to strike at US other than going directly at tanks and bombers.
They won’t be lined up easy to kill.
They’ll be amongst our population... strike then melt into the crowd.
.50 cal would be fine and fun on the border. I do love me some Ma Deuce. (PBR Boat Captain - had 3 for a year :-)
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