Quote Originally Posted by MountainRaven View Post
The military is going to find out that the soldiers who can't hit anything at 300 meters with 5.56mm and an ACOG won't be able to hit anything at 1000 meters with 6mm ARC and an LPVO. They still won't hit anything at 300 meters with it, either.

It also doesn't change the facts that:
-These engagements are peculiar to a country that we're leaving.
-These engagements are occurring when the enemy is engaging American and allied troops with crew-served weapons (mortars, emplaced MGs, &c.).
-These enemies using crew-served weapons should be within range of American and allied crew-served weapons and/or CAS (and if they aren't, why aren't they?).
-Engagements in this country either occur at extremely long ranges (outside of the effective range of both enemy and friendly small arms fire) or extremely short ranges (where a 20" heavy-barrel 6mm ARC with a 5-25x50mm scope to shoot 1000+ meters is... inconvenient).
Well said.