Grendel as a Universal Infantry Cartridge

[JASmith]

...A long-time DOD contractor would already have emplaced their congressional delegation backing the move, negotiated teaming agreements, sought development grants, issued PR releases, and the whole gamut of what today passes for a development cycle.

...and that "whole gamut" is designed to address all of the foreseeable technical issues, starting with the ballistics questions we have been grappling with in this and other threads.

It would be easy to think of the problem as being overly complicated, overly long, and just "plain too hard" to do.

It is one of the reasons we so few new systems being fielded today.

The challenge, however, is indeed surmountable, provided that both the technical case and the political approach are up to the challenge.