Originally Posted by
danieljmaunder
The issue I see here, is the fact that for one, they're only rolling it out to combat arms and SOF units for the forseeable future, while conventional units and non combat arms will still be keeping the M4. Secondly, the maintenance logistics on this will be a major PITA, speaking from experience as a current army maintainer, when they made the switch to m855A1, no one thought about the steel tip on the round's first point of contact being the aluminum feedramp in the upper receiver. Now ee have to backtrack and and additional check and maintenance inspections points into already established systems. Personally, I feel the mcx platform is good, however they need to quit looking for solutions to problems that could be solved by telling the ****ing armorers to actually give the joes the ****ing elcan that is supposed to be mounted on their saw, and using mk 262 as MarkM said. Big army looking for extravagant solutions to problems that could be fixed in a much simpler way.