Funny. I'm thinking the total opposite.
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However, I'd rather have a Mk. 18 than any of them.
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Good question.
The Marines have already said the M27 meets their accuracy requirements, and clearly the durability and reliability requirements were met.
The M27 is well positioned to replace the M4 and A4. It's been speculated many times that the M27 is really a Trojan horse weapon system to get a back door replacement for the M16.
Guess we will see if that is true over the next few years.
Though, what's better than two M27's per squad: eight M27's per squad. Just give one guy the uber mags.
Depends on what you are going to do with it!
I do not think automatic suppressive fire with a mk18 at 300-500 meters is the most impressive aspect of it! :)
Besides, if you are shooting in 30 round bursts every 10 seconds, even 10 magazines is not going to last you longer than a few minutes or so.... I am not a SAW gunner, but I seem to remember them saying something about 5-7 round bursts here... Maybe my memory is bad.....
I seem to also remember one of the mods in the other thread saying that the M27 actually was FASTER shooting at night, because reloading a M249 with no light sometimes isn't very easy...
Initially the IAR was to be an IAR only, however one comment made by everyone who has shot it is this is an extremely accurate weapon. When CMC decided to fully field the weapon he directed CD/I to do an assessment if the IAR should be standardized as the rifle/carbine of the ground combat forces.
In 10 years, when these improperly maintained weapons are all beat up, and shitty we'll hear about how the Marines are replacing it.
If they'd done it right the first time, nobody would have wanted to replace the M4.
HK needs to fix their stupid ****ing magwell. There was no problem with the old one, why create compatibility issues?
I hate HK.