New Army "Caliber Configuration Study"

[joker31]

Mybe it wasn't the X15, the one I saw was plastic and clear, I was told it held 100 rounds but maybe they were wrong, it was a Captain of a Cav unit that told me about the particulars of the system, I saw it but never got to play with it. I did see a few AA12's also but didnt get to play with them either, one was being used for State dept security in a Bazaar during a VIP walk through, I was ducking cameras at the time and getting cards from the writers to have them redact me out. I did however see a SCAR in 6.8, which I didn't think existed at the time, even seen a 416 style HK upper on an M4 lower, which I thought wouldn't work. Everyone liked to point out stuff to me because I was previously a part of a WIT Team (Weapons intelligence Team) but most of that was explosive based including collecting brass headstamps and trace elements and cataloging techniques so we could tell how many bomb makers there were and how well trained they were etc... I was bored with that because they were talking court appearances and stuff like that so contractors were brought in (To preserve our identities) I am really interested in the Tavor myself and took a helo ride to get to shoot one, It was a real good time. I really think I may end up buying one soon. I worked around a lot of vehicles a lot and my interest is in small rifles but I primarily fought in long distance combat and was only engaged in a vehicle only once or twice. I think something like a 6.5 IAR would work well because the DMR and the Auto gunner are the same guy (Sexist I know but I only fought with guys 90% of the time but my partner was a female in everywhere else)
I have never fired a Grendel in Burst or Full auto so I'm not sure how it would act (Heat issues, feeding issues etc) but I can tell you that I'm yet to find a 26 round mag to feed correctly 100% of the time. BTW... The military only pays for development if they buy the product most of the time, they have gotten away from funding everyone's ideas, but DARPA will fund some things and most large contract companies have think tank divisions.