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Goody bye M16! Military Adopts the M5 rifle and 6.8x51. Are they crazy?
YTUBE ^ | may 10, 2022 | military arms channel

Posted on 05/22/2022 5:37:36 PM PDT by max americana

THE US ARMY announced they are replacing the trusty M4 and the 556...with this monstrosity.



TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 556; banglist; humblegunnerkaren; m4; m5; military; sigsauer
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To: max americana

The re-imagined service rifle.

......buy AK-47s


21 posted on 05/22/2022 5:55:41 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Phoenix8

I will admit, penetration and knockdown being inadequate is something I know little of. My understanding is that it was more volume of fire, and ability to engage out to 300 meters is what Germany was going for when originally fielded the Sturmgewehr and 7.92 Kurz cartidge. I know a little more on the how and why we ultimately chose 5.56 mm. I might recommend looking into Chris Bartocchi on this one, he has a YouTube channel that’s also the same name as his company Small Arms Solutions. He’s has a wealth of knowledge on these things, particularly the development of the M-16 and M-4.


22 posted on 05/22/2022 5:56:11 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Man from Oz

thanks bro


23 posted on 05/22/2022 5:56:14 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2018 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: jjotto

I like the .308 for pentrating body armor. Hornady made a tungsten core round for DoD that is sweet as all get out. You can kill an engine block with it too!


24 posted on 05/22/2022 5:56:26 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce. ☭☭☭)
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To: max americana

A quick search of the specs shows that the 6.8x51 SIG Fury had more kinetic energy than the 5.56x45 NATO...by far. (3653J vs 1755J).

That, in of itself, makes me interested to see it’s actual performance in field tests.


25 posted on 05/22/2022 5:56:37 PM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force)
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To: max americana

Making NATO ammo compatibility a thing of the past.


26 posted on 05/22/2022 5:56:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: markomalley

Recoil analysis of the 6.8mm NGSW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm64SgA2M3s


27 posted on 05/22/2022 5:57:59 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2018 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: Phoenix8

Oh, and that was the idea with the intermediate cartridges, volume of fire, manageable recoil, and a modest range for engaging point targets.


28 posted on 05/22/2022 5:58:37 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: max americana

The CMP will get all the old M4’s! Yeah.

And we civilians can get them cheap ... right????


29 posted on 05/22/2022 5:58:54 PM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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To: max americana

Launching bullets in the military is a complex issue.

They are claiming that they need a bigger bullet to penetrate the body armor that so many Soldiers now wear.

I’m just glad they did away with those old 45s.

You could be pretty sure the bullet would come out of the barrel, but all bets were off after that.


30 posted on 05/22/2022 5:59:20 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: CapnJack

“And we civilians can get them cheap ... right????”

Yup. I’ll be looking at the surplus store before Christmas XD


31 posted on 05/22/2022 6:01:52 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2018 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: max americana

A .270 cheese grater!


32 posted on 05/22/2022 6:02:26 PM PDT by Rodentking (There is no God but Yahweh and Moses is his prophet - http://www.airpower.blogspot.com/)
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To: Eagles6
I've been much annoyed with the 5.7x28. My wife owns the original FN version. I waited for the Ruger. Either way, the ammo has become prohibitively expensive. My Ruger is still NIB, unfired. There is some "glue" involved in manufacturing 5.7x28 that makes it more expensive.

I recently saw a Youtube video on a new 4.6x30 round that is in an all brass case. Cheap to manufacture. It is offered by HK

PDW ROUND COMPARISON 5.7X28MM VS 4.6X30MM

33 posted on 05/22/2022 6:05:57 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Grampa Dave

I had a Montagnard company of 90-110 yards. My two SSG’s and I took them to an ARVN range to zero in their new M16’s. When one sees a simple calf wound totally take all a VC tax collector’s entire calf and other tissue to his foot and put him in shock one might like a 5.56. My rhade yards loved the M16.


34 posted on 05/22/2022 6:09:40 PM PDT by Lumper20 (ll Dems )
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To: Lumper20

I had a Sergeant Major who told me he only used tracer in his M-16 in Vietnam.

He said it was for humanitarian reasons.

They cauterized the wounds.

Another guy I really miss.


35 posted on 05/22/2022 6:14:26 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
They are I guess doing this to ostensibly increase the range to jump up from 400 to 650 meters. They could have just put a 20 inch barrel on the M4.

How is that going to more than double the weight of the bullet?

The 5.56 has been a marginal round from the beginning and it's inadequacy showed itself even more when we started fighting in the desert with it's increased ranges. It's long overdue that the military deployed a better round.

36 posted on 05/22/2022 6:16:20 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: Eagles6
It's a preposterous cartridge.


37 posted on 05/22/2022 6:22:27 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: max americana; Joe 6-pack

Not only will it have a short barrel life but it has to be used with a silencer and is very difficult to control on full auto fire.

These issues have been brought up over and over again on various forums including FR.

My question is how are we going to get other NATO countries to adopt this? In some cases they rid themselves of a boatload of 5.45x39 Soviet to get 5.56 NATO. Now we turn around and ask them to get completely new rifles and ammo, again?


38 posted on 05/22/2022 6:23:12 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: All

Ballistically, not crazy. I wouldn’t mind having a bolt action, long range competition rifle taking this cartridge.

Economically insane. I’m sure Biden, Austin and Milley got serious kickbacks for this decision.


39 posted on 05/22/2022 6:26:22 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: max americana

Just bring back the M1-Garand and be done with it.


40 posted on 05/22/2022 6:27:48 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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