Army's new machine gun?

[voiceofreason]

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/07/19/armys-new-machine-gun-will-blast-like-battle-tanks.html

[Coal Dragger]

The author of that article is an ignoramus with no knowledge of firearms. That was painful to read.

[26 Inf]

The author of that article is an ignoramus with no knowledge of firearms. That was painful to read.

Slight subject shift, but speaking of painful to read:

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/mattel-gun-history-venerable-m-16-rifle

[B Cart]

According to the author, the fire rate for this new machine gun will be a smoking 60 rounds per minute! That kind of fire rate is sure to keep enemy heads down :p

[MountainRaven]

According to the author, the fire rate for this new machine gun will be a smoking 60 rounds per minute! That kind of fire rate is sure to keep enemy heads down :p

60 rounds per minute of 120mm ("blasting like a battle tank") sure would!

[AndyLate]

Well, it has an average mean radius of 400 meters, don't you know.

The author is a lawyer with 4 postgraduate degrees...

[MegademiC]

I liked that its so much more powerful, its basucally m855a1, and especially this:

“With the buttstock down, the Army also aims for it to be 35 inches long or less. In terms of dispersion, both the automatic 14 inch, and the semi-automatic 7-inch will have an average mean radius of 400 meters (1,312 feet).”

Can anyone interpret?

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I liked that its so much more powerful, its basucally m855a1, and especially this:

“With the buttstock down, the Army also aims for it to be 35 inches long or less. In terms of dispersion, both the automatic 14 inch, and the semi-automatic 7-inch will have an average mean radius of 400 meters (1,312 feet).”

Can anyone interpret?

I’m quite fluent in “Stupid”, almost a native tongue and,... I’ve got nuttin’.

[P2000]

I liked that its so much more powerful, its basucally m855a1, and especially this:

“With the buttstock down, the Army also aims for it to be 35 inches long or less. In terms of dispersion, both the automatic 14 inch, and the semi-automatic 7-inch will have an average mean radius of 400 meters (1,312 feet).”

Can anyone interpret?


I think the author was struggling to say.....
"Built like an Abrams tank this machine gun disperses so good at big 14 inch automatic dispersion battle tank radius, lots of feet, such cannon, so many feet and lots of meters too. Metric meters. Such pew pew, such bang bang. Potato"

[sgtrock82]

Like some misguided pigeon-guntalk. Trying to patch together what hes read/heard/seen before in the occasional time article, war movie, video game and random bits of an in law vet's war stories.

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[platoonDaddy]

Along with the new SAW’s, maybe each squad could have one of these:

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1019850829619179526