The military procurement machine is also looking at "solutions" like this:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017 ... _170405.nl
Billions of dollars are spent researching, developing and procuring stuff the troops in the field find to be useless to their mission.
Meanwhile, useful weapons, say like the A-10 Warthog, are shelved in favor of a boondoggle like the F-35 which looks to have a price tag along the lines of 3 planes per Billion dollars.
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- Thu Apr 06, 2017 11:36 am
- Forum: Rifles & Shotguns
- Topic: US Army wants to bring back the Battle Rifle
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- Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:09 pm
- Forum: Rifles & Shotguns
- Topic: US Army wants to bring back the Battle Rifle
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Re: US Amry wants to bring back the Battle Rifle
Don't forget that the primary reason for the AR was the weight reduction of both rifle and ammo over the M-14 and .308.
Today's soldiers are already carrying a great deal of weight on top of their M4 and ammo load. Any new rifle and ammo must not add weight to the load.
Regardless, the military services continue to find reasons to feed massive amounts of taxpayer dollars into the military industrial complex. And what we the people are ending up with to equip our troops is increasingly overpriced underperforming junk.
Today's soldiers are already carrying a great deal of weight on top of their M4 and ammo load. Any new rifle and ammo must not add weight to the load.
Regardless, the military services continue to find reasons to feed massive amounts of taxpayer dollars into the military industrial complex. And what we the people are ending up with to equip our troops is increasingly overpriced underperforming junk.