Pictures are coming.
Having trouble with individual pictures.
All five guns can be viewed at this link.
Can the M-14 Compete? /s
(My Favorite Long Gun of all time, then it’s the 1911 45, am I showing my age?)
TT
Going by pure aesthetics, the Beretta is one odd-looking weapon, but it would be a nice Evil Black Rifle to carry around.
I’ve been following this for a while. Even though it’s stacked against the contenders, in favor of the M4 or the M4A1, our Soldiers, I think and feel, deserve a carbine, if not a rifle, with a piston, so it would be as resistant as possible to sand, mud, and snow. All five guns fit this criteria, even the upgraded M4 with a piston.
In their attempt to stay in compliance with the U.S. Constitution, I expect Barry and his toads at the Pentagon to select the Kentucky Long Rifle.
The Army is two thirds done already with this project. Despite the sequester, it should finish it and make the results public, if nothing else.
The Army damn sure needs to up the calibre of any future rifle.The 5.56 is just to weak against drugged up thugs.
They should have learned that in Iraq fighting the drugged up terror creeps.
The Army also thinks that most combat in the future will be in urban city areas, instead of in vast distance battlefields. So they think the 5.56 is the best choice for urban combat. For any distance or special needs requiring a heavier bullet, they have a sniper version of the M-14 and the M-110 sniper rifle.
The Army needs better ammunition (something with adequately long bullets in the 6.5-6.8 range). And we know that such short weapons (seen in the article) are all the rage without enough analytical, objective regards to ballistics—especially terminal ballistics. Not all battles are fought in urban or thick jungle areas, and 20” barrels aren’t hard to carry or swing. I carried and M-203 most of the time (a 60 at about 23 pounds plus ammo belts, for one year).
$49 million just for phase III? Sounds like bureaucracy to me...
Oh, for crying out loud. The Army should replace the colt uppers with their new gas piston system and a roller cam option from POF, and that would be it, no more controversies about the M16.
The German Belgian stuff is overengineered and expensive.
which weapon would
Sonny Crockett and/or Harry Callahan prefer?
Hey, I’ve heard about this wonderful new rifle they’re developing; it’s powerful as all get-out and a tack driver out to literally hundreds of yards.
It’s called the M1 Garand, and it wins wars.
BFL
If it works why try to “fix” it?
If it doesn’t work, why the hell do we use it?