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The Annoyed Man,

Your ideas are absolutely spot on. They should have hired you to design the rifle and cartridge.

Crash

RPBrown,

What I gather from that article is that they will be issued for testing purposes. This view is reinforced by the last paragraph of the article:

"As units continue to test the weapons, the Army has scheduled a cold weather test for early next year, followed by a tropics test, then a hot weather test. Operational assessments of the systems are planned for early fiscal 2025."

I infer from this that, even if the tests are successful, general issue of the weapon wouldn't be until late 2025 or early 2026.

More weight for the soldier to carry, fewer rounds in the standard issue, more recoil, more cost, very likely a short barrel life and if the metallurgy on one of the rifles is substandard or if one of the cartridges is substandard, that 80k psi chamber pressure could result in serious injury or death

Crash

Any truth to the rumors floating around the internet that the Army's new XM7 rifle is going to be canceled? Or is it just the insane 80k psi, barrel-burning 6.8 cartridge that's going to be canceled?

Crash