Originally Posted by
pinzgauer
All the articles are pretty sketchy... They start with "the Army has selected a new round...". They have not in those solicitations anyway.
They provided projectiles, so it would have been accurate to say "the Army appears to be heading to a new *caliber*". It appears tahe exact cartridge has not been selected, nor is anything specified in the gov solicitations.
The self interest side of me hopes it's something like 6.8spc so civvys would benefit. But I hope for the Army's sake it's a breakthrough beyond the AR/M-16 bound cartridges. A true intermediate not restricted by 40+ year old magwell length.
Aqnd if you look at the performance objectives I don't see how they're going to do it without something like caseless.
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