12-23-2015, 05:09 PM
Something in 6.5mm is a better candidate for replacing 7.62 NATO, not 5.56 NATO.
We've beaten this topic to death over the years. Reducing the individual soldier's ammo capacity is not a recipe for success going into the future.
Reducing ammunition weight and/or increasing performance is what they are looking for, especially with regard to new Russian body armor.
Also keep in mind that the majority of soldiers, even ones who go outside the wire, rarely fire their weapons as it is. Withing an Infantry Platoon even, at least half of the duty positions don't have an M4, or should not be firing their M4 if they are assigned one, except for a worst-case, close-in overrun scenario.
1x Forward Observers
1x RTO's
1x Combat Medics
1x Platoon Sergeants
1x Platoon Leaders
2x Ammo Bearers
2x Assistant Machine Gunners (best weapon is a pair of binos and ammo for the 240)
1x Anti Armor Weapon Specialists (Javelin Gunner/SMAW Gunner)
6x SAW Gunner
2x Machinegunner
None of these 18 duty positions I listed above are going to be firing an M4, unless something has gone terribly wrong, and in that case, the highest magazine capacity is what they need. In scenarios where the Weapons Squad soldiers are taking rooms so the gun can set up, like I used to do with my AB's, AG's, and Javelin Gunners, they are room clearing a soft target with nobody inside but maybe passive civilians.
The remaining guys all carry M4's and shoot them more frequently.
6x Riflemen
6x Grenadiers
6x Fire Team Leaders
4x Squad Leaders
They go through a lot of ammo in chance contact/react to contact, as well as deliberate attacks. If you don't know what chance contact or any of the battle drills are, there are 8 of them.
Planned missions comprise a whole separate aspect of Small Unit Tactics, with the deliberate attack or raid being bread and butter, along with ambushes and movement to contact.
In any of these encounters with the enemy, planned or unplanned, your ammo is the fuel for your ability to sustain the fight. This is why I've been wanting to ax 7.62 NATO, without sacrificing terminal performance.
The only way to reduce weight and match or increase performance of my guns (we refer to belt-feds as "guns", never rifles or carbines, which are "weapons", don't ask me why), is to go with a more efficient bullet fired from a smaller, lighter pig, with less recoil.
We've beaten this topic to death over the years. Reducing the individual soldier's ammo capacity is not a recipe for success going into the future.
Reducing ammunition weight and/or increasing performance is what they are looking for, especially with regard to new Russian body armor.
Also keep in mind that the majority of soldiers, even ones who go outside the wire, rarely fire their weapons as it is. Withing an Infantry Platoon even, at least half of the duty positions don't have an M4, or should not be firing their M4 if they are assigned one, except for a worst-case, close-in overrun scenario.
1x Forward Observers
1x RTO's
1x Combat Medics
1x Platoon Sergeants
1x Platoon Leaders
2x Ammo Bearers
2x Assistant Machine Gunners (best weapon is a pair of binos and ammo for the 240)
1x Anti Armor Weapon Specialists (Javelin Gunner/SMAW Gunner)
6x SAW Gunner
2x Machinegunner
None of these 18 duty positions I listed above are going to be firing an M4, unless something has gone terribly wrong, and in that case, the highest magazine capacity is what they need. In scenarios where the Weapons Squad soldiers are taking rooms so the gun can set up, like I used to do with my AB's, AG's, and Javelin Gunners, they are room clearing a soft target with nobody inside but maybe passive civilians.
The remaining guys all carry M4's and shoot them more frequently.
6x Riflemen
6x Grenadiers
6x Fire Team Leaders
4x Squad Leaders
They go through a lot of ammo in chance contact/react to contact, as well as deliberate attacks. If you don't know what chance contact or any of the battle drills are, there are 8 of them.
Planned missions comprise a whole separate aspect of Small Unit Tactics, with the deliberate attack or raid being bread and butter, along with ambushes and movement to contact.
In any of these encounters with the enemy, planned or unplanned, your ammo is the fuel for your ability to sustain the fight. This is why I've been wanting to ax 7.62 NATO, without sacrificing terminal performance.
The only way to reduce weight and match or increase performance of my guns (we refer to belt-feds as "guns", never rifles or carbines, which are "weapons", don't ask me why), is to go with a more efficient bullet fired from a smaller, lighter pig, with less recoil.
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6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
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CCW, CQM, DM, Long Range Rifle Instructor
6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
www.AR15buildbox.com