New Cartridge Developments and Implications for Dismounted Infantry Soldiers

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I'm not really happy with the quality of our defense procurement these days. (If they were so good, we'd have had something like the 6.5 Grendel adopted already; doesn't need to be named the 6.5 Grendel, but needs to have an intermediate case with a high BC bullet. But, hell, why NOT the 6.5 Grendel, is my thinking?)

So I'm skeptical. Show me. Show me how the F-35 fighter is cooler than anything the Russians have or the Chinese might conceivably develop. The Russians just displayed a whole slew of armored vehicles in their May Day parade which I wouldn't want to face. (Bearing in mind that it's easy to either overestimate the threat capability when it's time to get funds from Congress, or to underestimate the threat capability when the budget is tight and we have to pretend what we have is state-of-the-art.)

But I digress and it's easy for me to go full rant mode. My point is, after the XM8 fiasco (rifle, not light tank — although that's another topic), I'm very much wait-and-see. Every new concept seems cool until you, literally, drag it through the mud.