Pictures coming.
Here’s an earlier post with some pictures of some of the contenders.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2701751/posts
The Remington Adaptive Combat Rifle system seems to have it all over the old M4.
An interesting (at least to me) related question is whether the Army would also make this an opportunity to change calibers - maybe 6.8SPC? Just a thought. Of course, when the Garand was adopted, the Army spec’d it out as .30-06 simply because they had so much of it in warehouses after WWI. Today, OTOH, at the rate that ammo is being used in the Mideast, that particular issue may not be a problem.
Actually it couldn’t happen to a better company.You can’t even buy an AR15 in Connecticut that hasn’t been mutilated.
To bad to hear of their problems but that’s the way of the weapons business.
Colt has had a sweet deal for a long time.
In this June 25, 2010, file photo Britain's Prince Harry fires a Colt M4 assault riffle on a United States Military Academy range in West Point, N.Y. The Defense Department is searching for the successor to the M4 combat rifle and gun makers are loading with lobbyists to win the work. Colt Defense of West Hartford, Conn., had an exclusive deal to provide M4s to the U.S. military and didn't need a hired gun looking out for its interests in Washington.
If Colt went broke and had to be bought out by an American, I would cheer.
It used to be that the American way was to develop a better product, now it is to hire more lobbyists.