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Originally Posted by Five-O
At a minium maybe this will finally put the XM8 out of our misery. That thing is passing like a kidney stone.
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Five-0:
He, he, he. What happens if the XM-8 outshoots and outlasts the others?
There is a reason why the Army doesn't want to go through another series of small arms test and evaluation. They become a legal nightmare with lawsuits galore, even if the test is run as perfectly as humanly possible.
The 9 MM pistol program was a real lesson for the Army.
The lesson learned was not to solicit for new small arms unless one proved to give a quantum leap in terms of hit and kill probabilities when fired by an average trained soldier, while being lighter and using a lighter round of ammunition BTW.
Soon that carbine will weigh more than an M-1 or M-14 -- unless they weight that much now with all the stuff people are forced to put on the rail systems.
If the problems with sand and dust are that this stuff gets into the bolt and bolt carrier thus jamming the locking or unlocking of the bolt, then it appears to be logical to look at the bolt and bolt carrier. I don't see how that much dust or sand can get into the gas system itself to clog a gas tube. I can see how sand and dust can jam up op rods and gas pistons though.
Well, we will see what happens but I bet that jamming won't be due to a system of operation but rather the function of the bolt and bolt carrier.
Gene