New Cartridge Developments and Implications for Dismounted Infantry Soldiers

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It looks like the Army agrees. https://taskandpurpose.com/army-next-gen...ad-weapon/

P.S. Better take your blood pressure meds before reading.

So what's funny: MARSOC has said publicly that the M27 offers no advantages and multiple disadvantages to them. They'll keep their M4's and M249's:

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/yo...-any-m27s/

“As of right now, the M27 doesn’t provide an additional capability or advantage over the M4A1 with SOCOM upper receiver group as the standard rifle carried by Raiders,” Maj. Nicholas Mannweiler, a Marine Corps Special Operations Command spokesman, told Marine Corps Times

And

"the M249′s volume of fire provides a greater tactical benefit than the advantages provided by the M27,” Mannweiler said