02-19-2013, 05:29 PM
LRRPF52 Wrote:What doesn't make sense is the 5.56 belt-fed SAW, a 27.6lb 7.62 NATO belt-fed machine gun, and a 7.62 NATO SASS all in the system. Those 3 weapons should be chambered in the same cartridge, while reducing the cartridge size, recoil and projectile wind deflection, but increasing its sectional density and penetration. That is where the Grendel comes into play.IMO, what's needed to give your proposal even a small chance of being implemented is to prove that a Grendel LMG can actually deliver the claimed performance. I don't know how this could be done without building a 6.5 LMG to use in side-by-side comparison tests with the M240.
Likelihood of happening? Probably not...