"We've already gotten e-mail traffic from our science advisers that everybody in theater wants one of these-and by in theater, he means his specific area of operation, Regional Command East in Afghanistan-because word has spread," said Dave Roy, an operations analyst with Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (N.S.R.D.E.C.). And, if budgets and manufacturing contracts allow, the Ironman system could be more-widely delivered to troops sometime in 2012. operated in Eastern Afghanistan's Laghman and parts of Nuristan provinces.Īccording to the Army news release, improved prototypes were shipped downrange approximately 48 days after Army technicians inspected the Iowans' work. Between October 2010 and July 2011, the 1-133rd Inf. The unit, as part of the larger 2010-2011 deployment of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry "Red Bull" Division (2-34th BCT), returned to Iowa earlier this summer. (A CROWS allows soldiers to aim and operate machine guns and other weapons with a videogame-like interface, while seated safely inside an armored vehicle.)Īrmy fabricators have dubbed the design for a high-capacity ammunition carriage system the "Ironman"-the traditional nickname of the Iowa Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment (1-133rd Inf.). The design is a mash-up of previously issued equipment: A rucksack frame, a couple of modified ammo cases, and a 27-inch feed-chute assembly (cost: $1,710) borrowed from a Common Remotely Operated Weapons System ("CROWS") vehicle mount. McNew first employed the system in combat in February 2011.
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Aaron McNew got the idea from the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Predator," in which actor, wrestler, and former Minnesota governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura wields a manpackable Minigun.
Initially, we came up with using 50-round belts and just reloading constantly, which led to lulls of fire and inefficiency." "The ammunition sacks that came with it made it too cumbersome and heavy to carry over long, dismounted patrols and especially when climbing mountains.
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