I wouldn't make the assumption Remington doesn't know how to manufacture to military specifications.
US-contract Mosin-Nagant
M1917
Rem 870
870 Modular Weapon System
M40 (Vietnam era)
M24
M2010
As well as having run the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant.
Should Remington fail to produce to the TDP and MILSPEC they risk default and never getting another military contract again. Bad form.
If Remington did not have the ability to earn the contract it would never have been awarded. This was a touchdown called back on a video re-play AFTER the game was done and Super Bowl rings given.
How many companies in the USA (and offshore) have produced M16s and M4s, and how many have knocked off ARs and M4geries?
It's manufacturing, not rocket surgery.
Light reading from a second source (keep in mind it's from Gannett):
http://militarytimes.com/blogs/gears...ith-remington/
An extract: "According to the Department of the Army’s Chief of Legislative Liaison, the Army today executed a delivery order to buy 24,000 M4A1s worth $16,163,252.07. The rifles will be made at Remington’s factory in Ilion, N.Y., from the Colt technical data package and will cost about
$673.10 a copy. That’s a
significantly lower price than the final order of Colt-produced M4A1s the government paid $1221 for in a 2010 contract."
The Army's agreement clause with Colt says the service can seek a second source if Colt's capacity is near maxed out -- which it supposedly is since they're now making M240 machineguns (ironically off FN's TDP).
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