12-05-2011, 08:27 PM
The constant recoil principle spans several different designs, and a wide caliber range. It is not beholden to any specific caliber, just as there are different operating systems, and recoil mitigation devices covering small bore up to artillery pieces. The Suomi Kp31 9mm SMG uses constant recoil. The 7.92x33mm German MP44/Stg44 uses constant recoil as well. I believe they are the first two shoulder-fired infantry weapons to have ever used it.
The 130-140gr weights are based on traditional bullet designs in FMJ's. A military looking for an affordable cartridge will not hold itself to environmental protection guises disguising economic warfare from within, as I suspect the "green" ammunition push to be, modeled after the restrictions on lead for fowl hunting, with no scientific basis for environmental protection, and a true agenda to disarm populaces via incrementalism. Since I don't see them fielding a "green" M80 any time soon, we needn't operate under the limitation that any future LMG cartridge must be "green". It would bankrupt current ammo budgets, which may be the goal of the EPA useful idiots in the hands of their Marxist overlords...
The 6.5x55 Swede has proven itself not only in decades of warfare, but across the game spectrum from medium-sized critters to large African species. An LMG duplicating 6.5x55 Swede ballistics, which has already been done actually if you look at the Swedish BAR's, is a proven system already from the muzzle-to-target standpoint. It just needs the platform built and fielded to an Army that prioritizes logic in its weapons procurement philosophy, not corruption and cronyism, so that pretty much rules out the US if business is as-usual in the Pentagon.
The 130-140gr weights are based on traditional bullet designs in FMJ's. A military looking for an affordable cartridge will not hold itself to environmental protection guises disguising economic warfare from within, as I suspect the "green" ammunition push to be, modeled after the restrictions on lead for fowl hunting, with no scientific basis for environmental protection, and a true agenda to disarm populaces via incrementalism. Since I don't see them fielding a "green" M80 any time soon, we needn't operate under the limitation that any future LMG cartridge must be "green". It would bankrupt current ammo budgets, which may be the goal of the EPA useful idiots in the hands of their Marxist overlords...
The 6.5x55 Swede has proven itself not only in decades of warfare, but across the game spectrum from medium-sized critters to large African species. An LMG duplicating 6.5x55 Swede ballistics, which has already been done actually if you look at the Swedish BAR's, is a proven system already from the muzzle-to-target standpoint. It just needs the platform built and fielded to an Army that prioritizes logic in its weapons procurement philosophy, not corruption and cronyism, so that pretty much rules out the US if business is as-usual in the Pentagon.