Devils advocate

[wrhoads]

As much as I think caliber fights are short sighted...I think this is misguided.

Name one real world use where 5.56 works better than Grendel.

Ballistically the Grendel is better in basically every single way. If ammo were the same price and just as available for each I think the 5.56 would be rarely purchased. We could get into high capacity mag reliability but that's mostly solved with the new mags and not really a caliber related topic more an equipment one.

If Grendel had been around when the military chose 5.56 I suspect it would be the NATO choice. The fact that it wasn't is the only reason why 5.56 is even produced.

I'm not arguing that the 5.56 is better ballistically in any way in comparison to the grendel, because it's not. I'm playing devil's advocate and trying to say that 5.56 will fit the bill the majority of the time. The point I'm trying to make is that the 5.56 is good enough