07-01-2011, 08:27 PM
JASmith Wrote:LR1955 has pointed out that we need "a 50%" improvement to get attention. We haven't yet identified anything that is even a 5% improvement...First, that's only Gene's opinion.
Find a design combination that meets Gene's 50% plus-up in at least one aspect while maintaining rough parity in other performance factors and numbers, then you have a chance...
Second, history says he's wrong.
From .50-70 to 45-70 to .30-40 to 30-03 to 30-06 to 7.62x51, the Army made only "5%" improvements. (5.56x45 was forced upon them by the SecDef, so it's an anomaly in the historical trend.)