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

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Yes, that's my take on it, too.

P.S. There was a discussion on arfcom about a week ago, in which one poster claims to have heard that the plan has recently been expanded to completely replacing the M4 throughout the Army. However, he provided no substantiation for that idea.

The pushback is going to be immense when units start experimenting with this.

SOCOM has zero plans to go that direction, that's for sure.

They're just going to more integrally suppressed 5.56 uppers with the SURG.

6.5mm Sniper Support Rifles (Semi Auto)

6.5mm LMGs (called an Assault Machine Gun)