01-31-2019, 07:36 PM
The Army's current impetus is based on the pie-in-the-sky requirement to penetrate certain hard body armor at 600m, using carbines and automatic rifles organic to the Infantry Squad.
This comes across to me as inappropriate for how Infantry fight, since Infantry are a main effort in COIN, not "near-peer" dismounted force-on-force scenarios.
If we see masses of motorized and armored units congregating at a certain area, we call in echelons of fire from the sky and surface-to-surface PGMs to decimate them.
A commander who plans to engage Infantry with Infantry when he has so many different modern assets at his disposal is failing at his job.
By focusing on a shoulder-fired weapon that has this capability, you get a system that is so overkill in the close range, that it lends itself less than useful compared to existing 5.56 NATO weapons with the M855A1, but would make an somewhat ideal bolt gun sniper load.
I think they might have gotten fixated on soldier's load only measured in weight, versus weight and volumetric displacement.
You must take both weight and space into consideration when developing a shoulder-fired rifle/machinegun cartridge.
The only cartridges that really did that in the past 100yrs in the US Army seem to be the .276 Pedersen and the 5.56 NATO.
.30 Caliber 1906 and 7.62 NATO said to the soldier, "Screw you!"
I'm really interested in the gizmo solutions they'll come up with to make weight and reduce recoil effects, because a hot-loaded .270 WSM is going to be screaming in the recoil department.
This comes across to me as inappropriate for how Infantry fight, since Infantry are a main effort in COIN, not "near-peer" dismounted force-on-force scenarios.
If we see masses of motorized and armored units congregating at a certain area, we call in echelons of fire from the sky and surface-to-surface PGMs to decimate them.
A commander who plans to engage Infantry with Infantry when he has so many different modern assets at his disposal is failing at his job.
By focusing on a shoulder-fired weapon that has this capability, you get a system that is so overkill in the close range, that it lends itself less than useful compared to existing 5.56 NATO weapons with the M855A1, but would make an somewhat ideal bolt gun sniper load.
I think they might have gotten fixated on soldier's load only measured in weight, versus weight and volumetric displacement.
You must take both weight and space into consideration when developing a shoulder-fired rifle/machinegun cartridge.
The only cartridges that really did that in the past 100yrs in the US Army seem to be the .276 Pedersen and the 5.56 NATO.
.30 Caliber 1906 and 7.62 NATO said to the soldier, "Screw you!"
I'm really interested in the gizmo solutions they'll come up with to make weight and reduce recoil effects, because a hot-loaded .270 WSM is going to be screaming in the recoil department.
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CCW, CQM, DM, Long Range Rifle Instructor
6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
www.AR15buildbox.com