Optimized Caliber

[Tony Williams]

Here's an article about the new carbine being sought. No mention of a new cartridge. I wish it were different; I'd love to see something like an HK416 in 6.5 Grendel adopted.

http://www.military.com/news/article/gun...ompli.html

Thanks for the link. The conclusion is no great surprise - I think that most observers expected that to happen as soon as they realised that an M4 improvement programme was going to run in parallel. I mean, how can any new conventional 5.56mm carbine realistically be so much better than an improved M4 (with all the changes made to it that the Army wants) that it's worth the cost to change?