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1. The "Green Tip" M855 will not outpenetrate the "77 gr." Mk 262, Mod O in most targets. The LeMas is even better, but AFAIK, is not yet approved for military use.
2. NDD is right, this rifle is a solution to a non-existent problem. Why do we have this solution? Something had to be salvaged from the hundreds of millions spent on the POS OICW, H&K was already prepared to make the rifle portion of the OICW, and they agreed to build an H&K plant in the Colombus, GA area, creating jobs and Congressional support while killing the NIH argument.
3. I doubt that Hack, "the grunt's friend", has any significant trigger time on a current production M16 or M-4. The M-8 may have a better MTBF, but that has not yet been proven. The shorter barrel length makes it significantly less lethal than the M-4, and a lot less lethal than the M-16.
HTH.
TR
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