cory Wrote:I don't know why we keep perpetuating this rumor that there is some problem with getting links for the Grendel case.It is not a rumor. It's a verifiable fact that the (5.56mm) M27 link, although its loop diameter can be easily increased to fit the fatter Grendel case, does not allow sufficient case protrusion from the front link loop for proper interface with the front feed pawl and feed tray cartridge stop of a belt-fed machine gun. On the old Grendel forum, I posted a photo that illustrated the problem.
No one has yet shown that a viable disintegrating link can actually be designed and developed for the 6.5 Grendel cartridge.
Quote:There's a link somewhere in this section of the forum to another forum where a guy used, the rpd links I believe, and he states it was like the links were made for the Grendel case.Yes, and even before that guy, horde member RangerRick demonstrated the compatibility with RPD belts in the Grendel LMG thread: http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthrea...1#post9998
That's fine for the European armies which use non-disintegrating link belts of the RPD type. Unfortunately, it's quite irrelevant to the disintegrating links used by the US military.