04-05-2017, 08:16 PM
MeatAxe Wrote:Duke Cunningham is the poster boy of the defense procurement game, you know, $500 hammers, bribes, hookers, etc. ...perpetual tests / bandaids for the M16/4...
Assuming the army tested knackered out M4s against new FNs, HKs, etc. (and I've never seen that printed anywhere) what the hell would that exercise prove? Water is wet? Whoever came up with that idea certainly hatched a creative boondoggle at tax payer expense. Why not set up a test between the M4 and the Trapdoor Springfield?
Meanwhile, half a century on, our troops are still saddled with this POS M16/4 5.56.
Oh look, seems the US military is tired of their M4s and M249s getting out gunned by ancient .303 Enfields and 7.62x54R (as well as AKs) in Afghanistan, so they want to rush a new 7.62 NATO battle rifle into production for $$$$$$$$$:
http://soldiersystems.net/2017/04/05/us-...tle-rifle/
Too bad the Clintonistas sent 400,000 good as new M14s off the rack and into the cruncher, otherwise we could have dusted those off and given our troops instant ballistic parity for almost nothing. Are there any old M60s or M240s left in the inventory, collecting dust? What about T48s -- or were they shipped off to ISIS with the rest of the FALs...
Same old same old "military industrial complex" at play. Fund another study and do nothing.
MA:
Can't remember if you served or not. So remind us given I forgot. What unit, when, and MOS please?
LR55