So .30 caliber is 3 inches in diameter? 
Damn, our soldiers were studs in WWII!!
Posted on 10/30/2018 6:25:11 AM PDT by C19fan
“Right now, the feedback looks like we are going to a 6.8 caliber round,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said recently.
The service has a list of its top six modernization priorities and “soldier lethality” is one of the items. The most high-profile program in that category is the squad automatic rifle. Army Secretary Mark Esper at the Association of the United States Army annual conference — while promising the service is speeding up the way it does acquisition — singled out the program as one that would see prototypes in the near future.
“The bottom line is that we are committed to a new rifle,” Milley told reporters.
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Damn, army guys are impressive. Us Coasties needed a whole ship to back up such a round that wasn’t even that big, only 5”.
Just to muddy the waters a bit more, the length of naval guns are measured in calibers, as in 5”, 50 caliber, a 5” gun that is 250” long.
At least that’s how an ANGLICO Marine explained it to me at an FDC course.
Oh, my aching shoulder.
“This weapon has an accurate range far in excess of any known existing military rifle today. It will fire at speeds that far exceed the velocity of bullets today,” he said. It will penetrate any known body armor or any expected to be developed in the next 25 years, he added.
I think the good general may be just a bit optimistic. He certainly can’t be thinking of the 6.8 SPC which was referenced earlier in the article, albeit not specifically by name. In fact what he is claiming is ballisically impossible. I suspect this is more of a sales pitch to ill informed and gullible congresscritters.
Will it be a fully semi-automatic 6.8 caliber?
Awesome. Just do it. This is great news.
I purchased a 6mm Swedish Mauser back in the 80’s from Woolworths for $60.
I have a bolt action and a semi-auto , great shooters
The British had planned to move to a
.280 calibre rifle prior to WWI, the new rifle was to be the P-14 which was susequently rechambered to .303 as a war time exigency to to supplement the SMLE. The P-14 was produced by Winchester and Eddystone (Remington). Due to a shortage of ‘03 Springfields the P-14 action was redesigned as the P-17 in 30-06. More P-17s than ‘03s were used by American soldiers during WWI. Remington eventuall used the used to P-17 as the basis for the Model 30, a fine rifle. You could still see the P-17 influence 50 years later in the Reminton 660 series with its dogleg bolt handle. It is said that the Remington 700 was an updated version of the Model 30, thus the P-14 - P17 family, but I have not studied to 700 enough to confirm this.
I have four Swedish mausers including a M41b sniper.Very ac curate weapon,good enough for head shots on woodchucks at 200 yards.
Later.
I'd think a 6.8 caliber weapon would be heavy. And would attract the eye. :-)
My Aching Head,,,
6.8 Creedmore?
And in Navy-speak “caliber” is the barrel length in multiples of the bore diameter, but the general is not in the Navy, so you can either ignore my post or file it away for future reference.
7.62 x 39.
plenty of surplus.
So .30 caliber is 3 inches in diameter?
Damn, our soldiers were studs in WWII!!
Check the location of the decimal point in .30 caliber and get back to me.
OH shit, maybe that's why all those helicopters I made bushings for went down in '72!
My detector is fine, but your spreader is leaving chunks! LOL
Excedrin,,,,Thanks.
I assume you mean 6.5mm. I have one and just drops deer better than you'd expect.
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