They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war...even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war...even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war...even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Would have been nice to have used the same magazines in all weapons, would have eliminated one variable.
Why?
If a system is built to work with a proprietary mag, why use a different? All of the other weapon systems have to be compatible with the standard "GI" mags. But they are not primary on these weapons. There are no variable to eliminate if you follow the manufacturers directions and procedures for their own weapon system.
Brett W
Elite Defense
Vice President of Domestic Sales and Marketing
FN Senior Manager of Assault Weapons - SCAR Program 2006-2010
Former Troy Industries Inc Director of Operations 2003-2006
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-Pat Riley
If they are all STANAG compatible, then using stanag magazines in all would seperate the differences between the weapon itself and any inprovements in the magazine. If we are attempting to prove one rifle is significantly than another, it helps when we aren't alos muddying the picture by trying to test competing STANAG magazine designs at the same time.
When one is attempting to ascertain a trend, it is beneficial to eliminate as meny variables as possible.
Even better would be to use something totally outside the system like PMAGS in all of them. This would isolate the effects of the magazine from the weapon design as this magazine is organic to none of the above.
We all know if the army was to adop the SCAR or the 416, they would continue to run it with the same low-bid magazines they have been using forever.
No surprise newer designs performed better.
I'd be interested in knowing the distribution of the failures WRT heat and # of rounds since last application of lube. If evenly distrubuted, oh well. But if the majority of failures occurred late in the 600 round cycle between lube applications, then you've ID'd a trend to where a change in TTP's is warranted. If heat is a failure contributor though, then you need to engineer a heat sink or something along those lines. Still, 1.47% failure rate aint bad and 30 minutes exposures to dust like that are a pretty rough environment.
Another thing I'm curious about is gas port erosion. Each weapon saw 6,000 rounds. I can easily see the ports eroding across the test's duration, and reliability at the end of the test could have been impacted.
Does anyone know if there's been any attempts to incorporate sand cuts into AR carriers and/or bolts? If so, any gain in reliability noted? Any unintended consequences?
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