the new shit is this 6.8 caliber thing they're doing a competition for

it's down to SIG, Textron, and General Dynamics.

they also started working on that caseless shit

way back in the day

RIP G11

Yesh, I hope that does well. Apparently, it's supposed to be like, in low rate numbers of 10,000 so, it doesn't have to immediately go in to mass production

THE FUTURE IS NOW

I remember the semi-declasified aurora project, mach 6

With caseless rounds or polymer rounds it should be a pretty big improvement, a massive weight reduction of almost like half is problably going to be pretty valuable

You can carry twice as many bullets or, the same amount but with something twice as powerful

I think going with something more powerful and aerodynamic is the right choice

litteraly faster than the anti air rockets

yes but I don't think the US can force it on the rest of NATO.

oh no of course not, it will just be a uh, low rate production thing, like 500,000 or so, just for all the deployed troops xD

France just bought HK416s, Britain just cleared HK to upgrade the L85 to the A3 model.

we will still have the 5.56mm in reserve

when rather than have stealth systems you just fly so fast that they can't hit you

Also we have a new bold diplomatic strategy for dealing with NATO

And the US Marines just bought the M27 IAR (aka a rebranded 416)

*clears throat, cough*: Fuck NATO.

This is the bold new diplomatic strategy

Well in my experience the odds of a US Grunt getting a new primary rifle is 0.

fuck the eu

in particular

Nah NATO is great, I just don't think they care anymore about the politics of it

japan does more for nato, and they arent even nato

We'll just pick the better round and be like, sure we'll keep making the 5.56mm

I know right, to be fair Japan is pretty legit

Aside from the racisms

also their right wing hates us

idk; GD has a lot of clout in the Army's machine so if I were a gambling man I'd say they were going to grab it.

like we are literally hitter to them

that and GD is also running the LWMMG to replace the M60/M240

and I do mean their right wing, its the monarchist/revanchist branch

I mean NATO is awesome but I think our plan is to go our own way on military stuff like choose whatever cartridge we want and whatnot

Japanese politics sure are weird

normaly when there is an evil right wing its actualy the left... but this time its really their right wing XD

so if GD pulls this off we'll be using 6.8 and .338.

There is a lot of truth to that

Like if any of you have seen gate, and how america is portrayed in that, the writer for gate is a part of the jp far right

Yeah, 6.8mm and .338, seems legit to me. With the reduction in weight it will be even more viable, the .338 is only like 60% heavier than the 7.62mm NATO so, polymer alone should get it down to 7.62mm weights