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    Quote Originally Posted by buzz_knox View Post
    He doesn't. He's a military scifi author (and a good one). He's combining his service experience with some anecdotes and ancient history. He's neglected to take into account the more recent developments and combat experience of the 21st Century.
    There's some logic there, but in the actual practice of asymmetric warfare the quality of the rifle pales compared to what air supremacy and good C2ISR capability can bring, so if in the mid-90's this was written it would make more sense, but as bad as the FutureWarrior project was in concept, the DARPA shove towards making the spinoffs relevant has produced a lot of quality kit.

    It's the wrong analysis, but the fact that we're not making smart product improvements and using the onus of some required changes to do things smarter (e.g. use the green ammo push to make Solid Copper 'Brown Tip' (or Mk318/Mk319) service-wide) is symptomatic of the uselessness of upper echelons of leadership, and how disconnected the majority of the generalship is.
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    He keeps pinin' for a return to the 20 inch rifles in the comments when even the Marines are starting to question that decision.
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    I was much more interested in the article about the 57 porn stars without make-up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fjallhrafn View Post
    The M4 is the rifle the Army deserves, but not the one it needs.

    Sorry, couldn't help it.
    I see what you did there!

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    A simple bump up in caliber would be a 100 % improvement, ie to 6mm you can keep all the ergonomics of the current M4 with better ballistics of the heavier bullets. This would be at a slight gain in ammo weight. A 80 gr bullet at 2900 fps trumps anything a 5.56mm can through. A 90 gr bullet at 2700 makes the 5.56mm look wimpy at best.

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    We need a free floating rail, a variable power optic, and BNVDs. That's really about all we "need".

    And a shitload of better training. Make one E6 per Company the Small Arms Master Gunner and have that individual receive professional training. Units like the 75th and SFG could send MTTs to all major posts with a "train the trainer" approach. The trained E6s/senior E5s return to their Company and then train all of the other NCOs, who in turn train their respective Soldiers.

    There's nothing wrong with what we have. It doesn't matter if they gave us portable nukes, if we can't hit the intended target, what's the point?

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    Everyjoe-America’s Soldiers Deserve a Better Rifle

    Quote Originally Posted by GTF425 View Post
    We need a free floating rail, a variable power optic, and BNVDs. That's really about all we "need".

    And a shitload of better training. Make one E6 per Company the Small Arms Master Gunner and have that individual receive professional training. Units like the 75th and SFG could send MTTs to all major posts with a "train the trainer" approach. The trained E6s/senior E5s return to their Company and then train all of the other NCOs, who in turn train their respective Soldiers.

    There's nothing wrong with what we have. It doesn't matter if they gave us portable nukes, if we can't hit the intended target, what's the point?
    Isn't this what Asymmetric Warfare Group does, or at least part of it? Just expand that unit instead of pulling from operational SOF. It would be a huge improvement either way though. An extended free float rail would be the biggest material upgrade. A better lubricant and the knowledge to go along with it, as well as the knowledge about magazines almost always being the issue...

    He's talking about two different things. The ballistic effectiveness and reliability. Clearly he knows little of either, just what he's read in Army Times or may have seen personally, but not truly understood. Big surprise there. Being an Infantry LTC alone doesn't mean you know jack shit about any of this. And his writing style bugs the hell out of me.

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    That's such a poorly written article, I'm surprised he made it to LTC. Or perhaps that's why he stopped at LTC.

    I'm not referring to the content, but the article itself.

    The content... I couldn't even figure out what point he was trying to make. But I go back to my point that most casualties are caused by high explosives, not small arms.
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    Quote Originally Posted by C-grunt View Post
    I wonder which competing company this guy works for?
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    Quote Originally Posted by zirkdog View Post
    When he lead off with the LBJ/McNamara stuff, I stopped reading.
    I think the correct term is "rambling on."
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