and then shoehorn in something that is underdeveloped

LIke what?

not to mention the number of projects that suck up millions of dollars

that lead nowhere

GIVE US THE FUCKING ACR2

"millions" for a military project isn't a lot at all

I wasn't going to say billions

but whatevs man

Just scroll through the amount of cash that has been boondoggled over the years

And at the end of the day most of the equipment being used can be traced back to the 70s, even if it's been upgraded since then

It's been very curious to look into

I get it, "if it ain't broke" and all

Well the AR is just such a great platform

But on the flipside

I'm in the military I constantly a lot of money being almost thrown a way

Wasn't the M60 supposed to replace the M1919? And that got a bad rap too

Needed several upgrades

Yeah it replaced the BAR

And I think they pretty much just gave up and went with the M249 in the end

throwback to folding stock days

the m60 was just to unwieldy

But it looked cool in movies <:makes_you_think:382980749780844554>

The corrent equipment is still much better than the original m16

And the 249 shares ammo with the m4

Allows more ammo to carry and Inter-troop armament

FN FAL, I believe the US demanded they change the calibre so it'd accomodate .308

Then after they did that

US didn't use it and went with the M16 anyway

Wasn't the FAL 308 in the first place

I think the one we use is m240

But we don't call it that

240B is the larger model

I think it was supposed to use whatever most EU countries were adopting at the time. Pretty sure it was smaller calibre than the .308 though

This is it

F16 has been in service since.. 1978?

F18 since the early 80s

M1 Abrams around the same time