Posted on 04/07/2024 10:29:46 AM PDT by MAGA2017
After over five decades of faithful service, the M16 series, an icon of American military might and a direct descendant of the AR-15 designed by Eugene Stoner will be succeeded by Sig Sauer's advanced XM7 rifle. The M16, first introduced in 1964, has been the most-produced 5.56x45mm weapon, marking a significant chapter in the annals of U.S. military history. The latest variant, the M16A4, known for its three-round burst feature, will soon yield to the cutting-edge design of the XM7, a testament to the relentless pursuit of small arms excellence.
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What is supposed to be the actual article, is your link the whole thing?
And it’s supposedly 5 times the price, same with it’s weird ammo. And is all of NATO going to swap over? Sounds like like defense contractors and procurement officers at it again.
Looks like a tacticool AR-15. Is there anything truly revolutionary with this design?
Anyways, we should be able to buy the same model the military has. It's time for 1934's NFA to be repealed.
As a Sig-Sauer P229 .357Sig owner, I don’t see a problem, as Sig makes extremely high quality weapons, but I don’t actually know a darned thing about this rifle. I’m surprised the contract didn’t go to one of Hunter Biden’s coke buddies though.
Plenty of great black soldiers in US history.
Umm, some of what you said is really not nice and doesn’t belong here.
In my opinion, the military would be much better off with the 6.5 Grendel and a modern update of the AK pattern rifle. Extremely effective in the field and war and much more cost effective.
Exactly this.
Those heroic blacks were not hired because of DEI gov’t policy which really degrades blacks. Many wonderful blacks then and now but too many adversely affected by “entitlement” rendering many to be out of control, seemingly feeling immune to consequences, and wreaking havoc and death on society. Not healthy.
Discern the truth from the lie.
I know nothing of its replacement, but I’m not sorry to see it go. Our first firefight with that POS was a disaster, in part because three out of five jammed up. Tight. We were practically helpless, unable to return fire. It took balls of steel to come and save us. 4/30/1967
“to support the high chamber pressure of 80,000 psi”. 80,000 psi? That rifle is going to blow up after only a few rounds. I wouldn’t my face anywhere near the receiver/chamber on that rifle.
How so?
No Body armor will be safe ,LOL
The 5.56x45 was an inadequate round from the start, it's been in need of replacement for a long time. The bizarre ammo is how you get to 80K pressure which is needed to toss a decent sized bullet at good velocity from the short barrels needed to use a suppressor, a needed addition today. The military doesn't care about reloading it, that's a non-issue to them. The wear point in a rifle is the throat and being chrome lined removes that point. There's no reason this round should beat up a rifle any more than the 5.56 in a gas system designed for it. Reliability remains to be seen, but the new round seems like a much needed upgrade.
It's expensive and so is the ammunition. It's a heavy rifle and the recoil with the high pressure ammo is pretty stout. This is not the gun to be issuing to female troops on a general issue duty rifle.
As much as it pains me to confess, the M16/M4 family of rifles is arguable the best military rifle in the world.
Light weight, points better than any rifle ever made and is very accurate and very shootable .
The last 25 years have seen billions of dollars in the military and private sector invested to refine the M16 weapons system to the most accurate, reliable, effective and flexible rifle ever made.
The proliferation of a multitude of upper receiver configurations means one rife can span the range of Short barreled CQB weapons, Issue carbine, Designated Marksman Rife/Special Purpose Rifle , 22 LR rim fire inexpensive training rifle. It takes less than a minute to convert from one configuration to the another and you are good to go.
These uppers can use special purpose ammo like 300 Blackout and others to take up the slack when 5.56 X45 is not the optimum solution to the task at hand. Most are capable of using existing M16 magazines.
Most of it's competitors are a refinement or enhancement on the basic M16/M4 system and, while they may improve on the M16 is some areas, very few have been able to match, much less show an overall improvement, the overall performance of the M16/M4 weapons system.
Almost all do so at at a higher weight, more complexity, more bulk and reduced maneuverability.
Bull pup configuration rifles have many advantages over the M16/M4 and it's competitors but they are different and require much retraining over the conventional rifles and many users just prefer a conventional configuration.
The Sig M7 will most likely find a welcome place as a high power DMR/ SPR to give a squad a major upgrade in capability while the rest field M16/M4 variants using an intermediate power ammunition. The feed back from Ukraine pretty much supports this philosophy of use.
>> IOW, DEI is killing us.
Yes, but the way you put it in your message does not call out “woke” properly. You’d better have another go without the racist part. That garbage doesn’t belong here.
XM7 are used by some Ukraine troops.
I'm plenty discerning, thank you.
Grunts are not going to be happy with this. Basic combat load weight will increase quite a bit. Every pound counts when you have to hump several miles under a hot sun or through a couple feet of snow.
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