[John H K]

Yeah, it's a safe bet every single one of these will be made in plants situated in the US when it goes into actual service.

I don't have a problem with foreign designs. As long as it's the best one.

Our tanks all have German Rheinmetall guns. The Germans are just good at guns. (And optics, too, of course, and precision scientific testing equipment, as one of the spectrometers on the Mars Rovers is made in Germany.)

Most infantry weapons and machine guns around today are basically copies (some EXTREMELY close copies) of German WWII weapons. The AK-47, for one, and also I believe

[Terabitten]

Yeah, it's a safe bet every single one of these will be made in plants situated in the US when it goes into actual service.

It's been reported in the local newspaper here in Columbus, GA (Ft. Benning, Home of the Infantry bump!) that H&K is going to build a plant here to produce new M4 uppers and the new M8 once it's adopted. Don't know for sure though.