US Army Considers Adopting an Interim Battle Rifle in 7.62NATO: eventually adopt 6.5

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My point is I'm perfectly willing to grant M855A1 is a "better" bullet, but at what price per unit compared to an analog with a lead core instead of copper under the steel tip.

My argument is simple to address. DOD analysts can say: 1) Sure, it costs more, but this is 'merica and we can afford it, so we don't care. Or, 2) copper is not a strategic resource that we need to conserve in a very large war. Or, 3) using lead in the core is orders of magnitude less "effective" than the same in copper.

Those are what I consider valid "technical" reasons, not politically driven fake reasons — as Trump would say .