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    Textron Inc. Awarded $2 million Contract To Work on LSAT Machine Gun Ammunition

    HUNT VALLEY, Md. — AUGUST 6, 2013 — AAI’s Lightweight Small Arms Technologies (LSAT) team, part of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today it has been awarded a $2.05 million contract through the Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium to further innovate both its caseless and cased-telescoped lightweight ammunition and weapon technologies.

    This ordnance technology initiative includes three major thrusts. It continues to refine the LSAT 5.56mm Cased Telescoped ammunition and Light Machine Gun in support of an Army live fire experiment; advances development, testing and characterization of prototype 5.56mm Caseless ammunition; and extends Cased-Telescoped ammunition technologies to a 7.62mm cartridge.

    The 7.62mm cased-telescoped cartridge will incorporate mature lightweight ammunition technologies successfully demonstrated in the 5.56mm LSAT cartridge.

    http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...un-ammunition/
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    Kevin S. Boland
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    Quote Originally Posted by wild_wild_wes View Post
    Here is a vid of LSAT chambering and firing. Doesn't look too complex.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHkW-RKBXK4#at=29
    I have a feeling theres more than is easily visible. I have to wonder how complex the operating system is since there is no bolt.

    I could also be vehry wrong on complexity though. I wish they would ditch the caseless and pour all their effort into the CTA stuff.
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    This is 2012. The world is going to end this December and people are still trying to debate the merits of piece of shit, cost cutting crap AR's. Really?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrigandTwoFour View Post
    Ehrhart, T. (2009). Increasing Small Arms Lethality in Afghanistan:
    Taking Back the Infantry Half-Kilometer.
    http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc...c=GetTRDoc.pdf
    That was a really good read. Thanks.

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