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**Peregrino** · 09-02-2019, 08:45

Impressive concept; both weapon and ammo.

If adopted it ought to carry us through until we get to handheld lasers in the gigawatt range.

Everybody always wants more. More range, better terminal ballistics, more "tools" to "manage" information. I'm hoping this time "more" also means somebody is putting emphasis on increasing hit probability. (Because marksmanship training doesn't put any money in a contractor's [or congress person's] pockets and 1/2 to 2/3rds of the ammo load at twice the range means far fewer adversaries out of the fight.)

I don't think anyone is going to be enthusiastic about carrying the same basic load they're carrying now with the 5.56. Not to mention the "power management" system (batteries anyone?) to run all those management tools. Wonder what the barrel life is going to be (and how they're getting 3,200 fps from both a 13" AND an 18" barrel)? And what it's going to weigh/cost when the horse committee finishes giving us another camel (F-35 anyone?).

Would I like to have one? You bet (I am impressed with the concept). It would be really handy if I'm still here when the aliens finally show up. But until I win the lottery, I'm sticking with what works today.

09-02-2019, 08:45	#2
Peregrino Quiet Professional Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Occupied Pineland Posts: 4,701	Impressive concept; both weapon and ammo. If adopted it ought to carry us through until we get to handheld lasers in the gigawatt range. Everybody always wants more. More range, better terminal ballistics, more "tools" to "manage" information. I'm hoping this time "more" also means somebody is putting emphasis on increasing hit probability. (Because marksmanship training doesn't put any money in a contractor's [or congress person's] pockets and 1/2 to 2/3rds of the ammo load at twice the range means far fewer adversaries out of the fight.) I don't think anyone is going to be enthusiastic about carrying the same basic load they're carrying now with the 5.56. Not to mention the "power management" system (batteries anyone?) to run all those management tools. Wonder what the barrel life is going to be (and how they're getting 3,200 fps from both a 13" AND an 18" barrel)? And what it's going to weigh/cost when the horse committee finishes giving us another camel (F-35 anyone?). Would I like to have one? You bet (I am impressed with the concept). It would be really handy if I'm still here when the aliens finally show up. But until I win the lottery, I'm sticking with what works today. __________________ 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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