Our military adopting the Grendel?

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That's the potential flaw in your argument. You are assuming it won't also be necessary to shoot them twice with 6.5 Grendel.

Then there is the matter that many (if not most) rounds fired in combat miss the intended target.

And in a protracted fight, such as experienced in the 1993 battle in Mogadishu, having 210 rounds (7x30-rd mags) vs 175 rounds (7x25-rd mags) could make the difference between staying in action and running dry.

There is no assumption of any kind when i state that the 123 grain Grendel bullet is twice as heavy as the 62 grain 223 and thus has much greater energy when it leave the barrel. That's just plain old physics, and the future weapons video that i posted above proves it.


As for the loss of mag capacity, perhaps just carrying one more mag could make up for the difference... I mean 30 to 26 is a loss of about 15%, isnt it?