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Thats exactly what the lethality guys and operator's say. The barrel lenghts on each version are shorter than the current -16 family of weapons. So obviously the speed of the bullet decreases as does the lethality. (damn I'm starting to talk like the engineers I work with)
From what I understand, there has been very few problems with the M-4/16 with trained soldiers, other than the extractor spring on the M-4. Reservists have problems mainly due to lack of care and cleaning. Most problems seem to be with the mags. Of course you QP's would love to have a better bullet.
The arguments here are why spend money on a new toy when it isn't any better than the toy we have. One reason for the XM-8 is that the OICW was pretty big here a few years ago and this is kinda "the son of OICW".
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