03-18-2016, 03:49 AM
First of all, cant believe this thread is still around. Funny thing about the Grendel, I was talking to colleagues the other day at an agency that works to track certain trends in Small arms and it looks like the Ratnik report was released and the Russians may be picking up the Grendel, at least on a certain level. I never thought that this little cartridge would amount to much outside of a few guys here and there hunting and target shooting. Evidently K-Concern had a few examples that they entered into the competition back in 2012, one of which was a AK-12 (Heavy) in 6.5Grendel. I was asked by someone in the publication business if I heard anything about it and at the time I had heard a few things here and there but only thought it was Russian "Dream Sequencing" because everyone knows they dont have the money for research right now and they are sitting on a mountain of AKM's that they cant do anything with. I'm not sure if they are going to keep them for domestic use (Makes most sense) or if they plan on using them in expeditionary deployments. From what I hear, the powers that need to be impressed were quite impressed. I guess its great to get all of their work done for them by Americans and HAD to be a big selling point.