New Cartridge Developments and Implications for Dismounted Infantry Soldiers

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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.

Of course it's more accurate. They're using essentially custom hand loaded ammunition vs military rounds that have a 2 moa (I think it's 2) requirement in an M4. I do hope it works as well as they say it does.

However, I do have my doubts. Watching that video I see a couple of places in the mechanism that could cause significant jamming if everything doesnt work properly. I have serious doubts on the decreased maintenance time. I don't see how caseless ammunition doesn't leave the chamber area absolutely filthy. But with that rotating chamber it could be much easier to clean than the current one.

...Surely you don't seriously think the military would give a belt-fed LMG to every infantryman?

Perhaps. But how do you propose to achieve such a high BC if bullet weight is in the 100-110gr range? The 107gr MatchKing only has a 0.406-0.420 BC, depending on velocity, and I doubt that would be improved upon with a lead-free, ball round.

I don't think he meant that platform, but the caseless ammunition technology.

You're still living in the AR15 world buddy. With caseleess ammunition why would we be subjected to a 115gr limit?