05-11-2011, 11:44 PM
JASmith Wrote:We might be approaching the trajectory question a bit awkwardly.
A way of looking at this might be to ask that the rifle/carbine has a point blank range (based on the average size of the torso) that is equal to or better than the 5.56 and that the GPMG application has the direct 7.62 comparison.
Yes, but I was also thinking that the new round would replace 7.62mm in the semi-auto DMRs like the M110 and M14EBR.
Clearly, it would make sense with one general-purpose round to have the DMR simply being a longer/heavier barrel version of the standard rifle/carbine.