New Cartridge Developments and Implications for Dismounted Infantry Soldiers

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CT deals with heat much better than brass. Electron flow through a thick polymer is more difficult than a thin alloy, and the chamber is separate from the barrel with LSAT. It's a counter-rotating chamber that goes back and forth like an alternating revolver with a camming action.

There is no longer the ogive and projectile length limitation associated with metallic cases. The projectile is seated inside the case fully, so there is no longer consideration for neck and shoulder location, because there is no neck or shoulder anymore. Projo length is now driven by case length and primer space.

That all just blows my mind! I look at an AR, and I've dinked with them so long that my brain just "sees" how they work. This new stuff will take a while (if ever) for me to actually intrinsically "get it".....

I'm not calling them liars, but it's hard for me to accept that it's accurate with a seperate moving chamber like that. If they say it is, then I know it must be, but that just seems so weird to me.