Serbia adopting 6.5 Grendel as main military cartridge

[Fess]

It will be interesting to see if Serbia uses the SAAMI/CIP 6.5 Grendel. There is no real reason they could not change it, but the Grendel has been around long enough that it is now a known quantity, and Prvi Partizan already makes it. I could see the possibility of some changes if they change the case material from brass, if that makes manufacturing easier. I am not familiar with the M19 rifle that they will be using, so I have no idea of how well the lower section of the case is supported. I could seen them thickening the case wall near the base if bulging becomes an issue.

[LR1955]

I'm sorry. I wasn't talking about Stan. I should have said I was talking about The comments section of the article. I apologize to Stan for my mistake.

H37:

Thanks! Had no clue what you were referring to.

LR55

[hill37]

My old brain derails sometimes.

[stanc]

0:38-3:48

[Sticks]

Interesting crossbreeding. M4 and AK47 offspring.

Surprised they went to a M4 type charging handle.

[VASCAR2]

[stanc]

The velocity they quote appear to be very similar to the velocity posted by Prvi Partizan 6.5 Grendel commercial ammo.

That's because the quoted velocities are from the tables on the Prvi website.* https://www.prvipartizan.com/rifle_ammo.php

*Note that the listed velocities are for 24" barrel length.

Ditto. I'm also curious if the military Ball ammo is the same as the commercial lead-core 110gr FMJ, or if it might be the hardened steel-core 93gr FMJ from 2017.

http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthread.php?12592-Serbia-adopting-6-5-Grendel-as-main-military-cartridge&p=172950&viewfull=1#post172950

[BluntForceTrauma]

https://en.topwar.ru/177059-serbija-...libra-762.html

Great find, Stan, thanks!

If they ever make a belt-feed for this with links, the Earth will start spinning backwards!

[stanc]

Great find, Stan, thanks!

If they ever make a belt-feed for this with links, the Earth will start spinning backwards!

I am rather surprised that the Serbs haven't already made a belt-fed LMG in 6.5 Grendel.

The cartridge looks like a perfect fit in the non-disintegrating links made for the 7.62x39:

http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthread.php?984-Grendel-LMG&p=9998&viewfull=1#post9998

[Sinclair]

My old brain derails sometimes.

hill37,
do not feel too bad, you have plenty of company in that resect, present company included.

[BluntForceTrauma]

I wonder what LMG the Serbs use? The video you link had a PKM in 7.62 NATO, but didn't see anything smaller.

[stanc]

I wonder what LMG the Serbs use? The video you link had a PKM in 7.62 NATO, but didn't see anything smaller.

The Serbian army uses a domestically produced copy of the magazine-fed RPK instead of a belt-fed LMG.

[stanc]

https://www.zastava-arms.rs/en/2020/06/25/modular-combat-system-mcs-by-zastava-arms-serbia/

[HoustonHipster6.5]

Yeah, an extended box mag "RPK" style weapon would make more sense. Fewer rounds more accurately placed, a la the Marines HK 416 mentality.

[BluntForceTrauma]

At SHOT Show 2022, the rep in the Zastava booth said they cannot import any 6.5 Grendel AKs or the new Serbian-designed service rifle because 6.5 Grendel IS in use by the Serbian Army, and thus falls under export bans.

Interestingly, they CAN import both 5.56 and 7.62 NATO weapons cuz the Serb military does NOT officially use them.