New Cartridge Developments and Implications for Dismounted Infantry Soldiers

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LSAT is select fire and can easily be shot with controlled pairs with simple trigger discipline like any other constant recoil system. We already have been taking SAWs into the house since the SAW was adopted, it just traces in the Fire Team because of the drag it causes a soldier with all that weight. LSAT takes that away, so you aren't as concerned about who is in the Fire Team flow.

The ammo cost and ability of soldiers to carry so much more ammo will change things.

The biggest obstacles are going to be South Carolina Congressional districts with the FN manufacturing plant.

That USMC rotary grenade launcher is garbage by the way. Major reliability problems and complications with reloading them. They don't work in a field environment very well, but have been kept us truck grenade launchers by units who have access to them. For dismounting, they were a major failure.