Originally Posted by
BrigandTwoFour
The problem with "Interim" is that it usually ends up becoming permanent. If I recall, the M-16 was supposed to be an "Interim" solution on the way to the SPIW program coming to fruition.
I'm not an infantry guy, but there's a whole lot about this that doesn't make sense. What problem are they trying to solve? If it's a body armor problem, isn't the EPR supposed to do that?
If the problem is being outranged by PKMs, shouldn't we be considering more 240's?
A combat load of 210 rounds? Of 7.62? Yeah, that weight increase is going to go over well.
Perhaps this is a step along the way to fielding a 6mm class cartridge (.260 Rem?) for both individual weapons and support weapons.
Maybe those in the buildings with no windows know something about the possible pivot to the Pacific theater that the rest of us don't, and they need a solution real friggin quick.
Maybe it's just some general or colonel looking to move up the ladder by pushing some new program, through. Who knows?
In all honesty, it will probably end up like the last few efforts to replace the M4.
I would think that the push for 7.62 (range-wise at least) is focused on The Sandbox, i.e. Afghanistan, Iraq, et al. If there was a pivot to the Pacific that is where the body armor concern would likely imply China specifically. Of course any near-peer (to include the Rooskies) could be expected to be sporting body armor of some sort.
Doesn't M995, the elusive "Black Tip", penetrate body armor? That would seem to be your answer to that concern for 5.56mm.
Last edited by ABNAK; 08-06-17 at 14:11.
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