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Army takes HK416s from special unit
Military.com ^ | 12 March 08 | Matthew Cox

Posted on 04/08/2008 5:33:15 PM PDT by LSUfan

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 416; army; banglist; m16; m4
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1 posted on 04/08/2008 5:33:17 PM PDT by LSUfan
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To: LSUfan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZpZryZEiY4


2 posted on 04/08/2008 5:36:11 PM PDT by BGHater ($2300 is the limit of your Free Speech.)
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To: LSUfan; SandRat
Bureaucrats exercising their power.
3 posted on 04/08/2008 5:37:53 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: LSUfan
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4 posted on 04/08/2008 5:40:35 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: LSUfan

How stupid is this? The HK416 is demonstrably a better carbine and it is completely familiar to anyone who has used an M4. It’s just an improved M4. It’s not like they have some wierd, nonstandard rifle, it just doesn’t have the stupid direct gas tube problems. I can’t see any possible reason they can “require” the M4 after they have bought better weapons. Stupid, stupid, stupid. They should be replacing all the M4 uppers instead.


5 posted on 04/08/2008 5:42:57 PM PDT by Sender (Stop Islamisation. Defend our freedom.)
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To: LSUfan
Follow the Murtha money..
6 posted on 04/08/2008 5:43:24 PM PDT by xcamel (Forget the past and you're doomed to repeat it.)
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To: glock rocks

I am awaiting your words of wisdom as displayed in your latest post to me...


7 posted on 04/08/2008 5:43:35 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: LSUfan
The military and especially the Army need to get the politics and infighting out of the rifle procurement process.
8 posted on 04/08/2008 5:44:41 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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To: xcamel

“Follow the Murtha money..”

Yeah, trace that greasy money right back to the buttered palms...


9 posted on 04/08/2008 5:46:34 PM PDT by Birdsbane (If You Are Employed By A Liberal Democrat...Quit!)
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To: LSUfan

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10 posted on 04/08/2008 5:46:56 PM PDT by dadgum ("Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.")
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To: LSUfan

I wonder if this is some kind of weird fallout from the Boeing tanker deal.


11 posted on 04/08/2008 5:47:47 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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12 posted on 04/08/2008 5:48:12 PM PDT by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: Sender
Am I correct in assuming that the M4 and the HK416 use the same magazine basically the m16 magazine which fits NATO equipment.

If that's correct, the decision to take away this weapon is even more bizarre. It does need much less attention than the M4'

Also what is the timetable for the introduction of the new 6.8 MM Remington round, designed to improve the M16's longrange lethality. Does anyone know? If I interpret correctly, present rifles can be re-chambered for it without much problem. Anyone know?

13 posted on 04/08/2008 5:48:48 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (GOP Plank: Double Domestic Crude Production. Increase refining capacity 50 percent)
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To: Squantos

Did you see this?


14 posted on 04/08/2008 5:51:13 PM PDT by Eaker (Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test. -- Calvin)
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To: Kenny Bunk
Barrett M468m has almost the same lower receiver, I think it has a different buffer assembly though. Not sure if it is gonna be incorporated into Big Army. Not compatible with NATO :(
15 posted on 04/08/2008 5:53:22 PM PDT by BGHater
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To: LSUfan
This is the utmost in arrogance and stupidity on the part of somebody in the United States Army.

The HK416 works better than the M4 because it is piston operated rather than gas impinging operated. It uses the same magazines as the M4, and the HK146 upper can be mated to an M4 lower, thus converting our existing weapons economically.

These rifles are already bought and paid for. The only reason to remove them from service is because the Army doesn't want the world to find out how superior a gas piston operated weapon is to the gas impinging operated M4/M16.

The Army is also in the process of purchasing even more M4s without any competition.

The USA’s M4 Carbine Controversy


16 posted on 04/08/2008 5:55:23 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: Yo-Yo

What is the story on the FN SCAR that SOCOM adopted?


17 posted on 04/08/2008 5:57:46 PM PDT by LSUfan
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To: Sender

What’s funny is Eugene Stoner, the designer of the M-16 (grandfather of the M4), later developed the Armalite 180, which incorporated the gas piston design, and a folding stock.Reliable as all heck, but the M-16 was in motion and committed to already, so it was brushed aside. Contracts are all about politics and money.


18 posted on 04/08/2008 5:59:40 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Groundhogs-God's little gift for honing your skills...)
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To: xcamel

beat me to it ... MONEY ... deep pockts .... filling empty pockets!


19 posted on 04/08/2008 6:02:55 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Eaker; SLB; dcbryan; Criminal Number 18F; archy; Travis McGee

Yep total BS , bean counters BS’d & bribed .......the H&K 416 is IMHO the best thing that has happened to the M16 family since it was introduced.. I have carried everything from the old XM177’s to the M4 when I retired and our company uses the HK416 now for a reason. They work. And we really really tried to make em fail, we hate new and improved with a passion thus a lot of the folks desire to pack M1A’s until we ran the 416 thru it’s paces. Good weapon albeit critics who have never carried one or relied on one seek to trash it........

The HK416 isn’t going anywhere IMO. This is a bump in that procurement road.

Thanks for the ping Eeeeek !

Stay safe !


20 posted on 04/08/2008 6:03:54 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.©)
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