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Arma Viri - Your "frustration" is misplaced and attracting unwanted attention. You were told to use the search button. As a self-proclaimed student of military history, and a European to boot, it should be a relatively simple thing for you to research the StG 43 & 44, the 7.92 Kurtz cartridge, and the rationale behind the development of the "assault rifle" concept. The 6.8 falls within the parameters defining the ideal assault rifle cartridge. The US has followed a completely different route in its weapons development programs; i.e., we didn't adopt the "intermediate cartridge" concept for military use. FWIW - We're not going to anytime in the forseeable future. We've discussed this topic in various forms ad nauseum on this forum. 6.8 is not a military cartridge. It will never be a military cartridge (at least not in the US). We are Soldiers. That means that while some of us have an appreciation for the 6.8's specific characteristics, none of us really care to engage in another apples vs. oranges discussion (that dead horse was beaten into rotten hamburger years ago). Please consider the implications carefully before continuing to hammer away at this thread. Peregrino
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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