Is the Army switching weapons and caliber?

[SGT MERC]

Army chooses new rifle for combat troops

The Army has picked a replacement weapon for the venerable M-4 carbine, the service’s standard-issue weapon that was wielded by combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for several years.

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[cobracide]

Yep

 

[Klaus]

interesting

 

[03Sssnake]

RE: caliber…Yup been coming for awhile, they will also get new optics also have a ballistics calculator and a lot more.

The Army picked a scope for its new rifle

On January 7, 2022, the US Army announced the selection of its Next Generation Squad Weapons-Fire Control system. Made by Sheltered Wings, a subsidiary of

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[sonicx]

Sig musta had some good model reps

 

[svtfocus2cobra]

Like @03Sssnake said, it's been in the making for a while. The standard issue upgrades are insane, even for the Marines. Basic infantry is getting shit we only had available on offer in a CQB suite which was supposed to be better than what everyone else had. Standard issue suppressors for rifleman, better optics, better NVGs, etc. It's a good time to be in if you are a gear queer, and still awesome even if you aren't!

 

[Weather Man]

I have a 6.8SPC, but the new 6.8 will have more power than that.

 

[BLOWN PONY]

I thought they were working on caseless ammo?

 

[Weather Man]

I thought they were working on caseless ammo?

My understanding is that it works fine but it just can't hold up to the abuse expected for military ammo.

 

[SGT MERC]

Just read about the new optics, wow. When I was a sniper in the Marines, 86-92, the last 2 yrs I was in STA PLT, we used a cheatsheet taped to the inside of the butt stock of our M40, a pen/pencil, and note pad, to calculate the dope on our scope for a shot. Temp, wind speed and value, temp, distance, cold/hot barrel, etc.

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[CobraBob]

Yep, optics have come a LONG way since '86-'92. Amazing stuff being manufactured today.

 

[1Kona_Venom]

Still wont be effective in a COIN fight.
And the world has turned the corner on a primarily force on force fight

Money better spent would be cyber defense and an answer for some peoples nukes

 

[SID297]

Space Lasers

 

[HEMIHUNTER]

Titanium Telephone Poles


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[svtfocus2cobra]

Titanium Telephone Poles


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Would love to see if those are actually being utilized and what it would look like. Supposedly they would be a violation of the Convention?

 

[03cobra#694]

Would love to see if those are actually being utilized and what it would look like. Supposedly they would be a violation of the Convention?

What are those?

 

[mariusvt]

What are those?

Basically what it sounds like, a telephone pole shape and sized hunk of tungsten dropped from a satellite in I believe a low earth orbit.

 

[Lambeau]

Basically what it sounds like, a telephone pole shape and sized hunk of tungsten dropped from a satellite in I believe a low earth orbit.

So terminal velocity from space of a free fall tungsten projectile is 10x the speed of sound (~7,600 mph)?

I don't understand that statement, about the 5th paragraph down:

These Air Force 'rods from God' could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon

The 107-country Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed or used from Earth's orbit. What they didn't count on was the U.S. Air Force's most simple weapon ever: a tungsten rod that cou…

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[mariusvt]

Yea, when I was reading about it, they talk about mach 10 but then during reentry most of that velocity is lost. I forget what the after reentry velocity is but it still sounded extremely damaging

 

[cobracide]

"In the case of the system mentioned in the 2003 Air Force report above, a 6.1 by 0.3 metres (20 ft × 1 ft) tungsten cylinder impacting at Mach 10 (11,200 ft/s; 3,400 m/s) has a kinetic energy equivalent to approximately 11.5 tons of TNT (48 GJ).[14] The mass of such a cylinder is itself greater than 9 short tons (8.2 t), so the practical applications of such a system are limited to those situations where its other characteristics provide a clear and decisive advantage—a conventional bomb/warhead of similar weight to the tungsten rod, delivered by conventional means, provides similar destructive capability and is far more practical and cost-effective"