04-03-2019, 04:28 PM
Double Naught Spy Wrote:Right, lots of big original claims, but now reality is setting in and what I fear is that at best they will end up with marginally better performance without the benefit of a smaller or lighter package (and one that will actually be larger and potentially heavier overall) that will fail to actually convert to better overall effectiveness on the battlefield.I doubt that it's practical to get a cartridge smaller than 5.56x45, that's just as effective. And if significantly greater performance is wanted, a new cartridge will of necessity have to be bigger than 5.56x45.
Double Naught Spy Wrote:So this notion of committing to a program that is supposed to be the new military platform when there isn't a platform or even a cartridge yet is downright scary to me...I think maybe you scare too easily. Similar statements of "committing to a program" were made about the ICSR, the OICW before it, and other programs going as far back as the SPIW project of the 1960s.