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

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If so, he must've had one helluva crystal ball. He rejected it five years before the Japanese invaded China, seven years before the Germans conquered Poland, and almost a decade before Pearl Harbor.


I'm not following you. In 1932, World War II was still years in the future. In 2017, we're not in the middle of a full-scale war; just low-intensity, counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations.

If one were to read the diplomatic cables of the 1930s even today, it would change much of the way you view the history of that era.

Also, look at how many carriers were built from other ships or purpose-built in the 1930s. 3 carriers were built from 1934 to 1940, to add to the existing Langley and Lexington.

There were a lot of shifting tidal waves of the global power structure in the 1930s, in addition to the Great Depression.

I think a combination of factors came into play that prevented the .276 Pedersen from being adopted, many of them potentially more valid for the decision-makers if we were to see their perspective and what they were factoring into the process.

Either way, it retarded small arms cartridge development for the infantry rifle in the West by decades, and we still have not recovered from that opportunity, given the stinking example of the 7.62 NATO albatross around our literal necks.