Our military adopting the Grendel?

[LR1955]

Gene,

"Cult of the Grendel" members don't need test results. They have their faith in the (so far unproven) superiority of 6.5 Grendel performance.

Indeed, I have come to think that perhaps the real reason -- as opposed to all the excuses I've been given -- for the continued opposition to my calls for such testing during the last several years is that they fear hard data will disprove their claims.

Stan

Stan:

I don't think it is because people fear the results.

In the case of guys here on the Forum -- they don't have the money to run tests that would have any meaning. First off, no one knows what a ball round would be so anything anyone does is a mere guess. And what would a Grendel service carbine be? Not to mention that no one so far has been able to state any requirements or significance values.

In the case of the military, they would run such tests if they thought it was worth the total cost of a replacement for the 5.56. Congress can also direct that the military run another test of cartridges but I haven't noted that type of political interest.

I think the only person here who would know what, if anything, has been done would be Alexander.

LR1955