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Yeah, I understand the usefulness of guided munitions, But the cost for the average soldier is prohibitive. If I'm not mistaken, we now have 12guage shells that do approximately the same things that this new weapon does, but on a little more primitive scale. I don't think you can tell the shell to go 100 meters and then blow up. It may have been more of a contact explosion. The 12ga shell is probably $15-$20 apiece, but even that would be a specialized occasion to need that.

If the old arguments that made the .223 the basic round hold true, then this new gun will be something some corporal will call for to be delivered to some firefight to dislodge a couple of bad guys. Why not a few grenades? how about a rocket? maybe even a warthog or helo attack? The ammo and the price of the gun probably would pay for any one of these already proven methods of terminating the problem. Unless it could be the "basic" weapon for a ground pounder, I just look at it as a curious gadget. Maybe after a few years the prices of these things will decrease and make it possible. Then we will have to compare apples to apples( and hopefully go back to the .308):<). A .308 will go through many of the walls that this weapon is designed to defeat. And I have seen a .50 dismantle stone walls to leave no where to hide for the enemy.