Colt CM901

[mcantar18c]

Maybe I just didn't read far enough, but how are they going from 5.56 to 7.62NATO mags without swapping lowers? As far as I know, the rounds use different mags, and they aren't interchangeable...

[spyder]

Maybe I just didn't read far enough, but how are they going from 5.56 to 7.62NATO mags without swapping lowers? As far as I know, the rounds use different mags, and they aren't interchangeable...

The magwell accepts both 223 and 308 mags, it adapts itself to whichever you put into it.

[Pancho Villa]

I keep hearing "cost prohibitive" as a reason to never upgrade our weapons systems for the infantry. Has anyone put a dollar amount on that?

Let's say we phase it out, giving only deploying troops the new arms, kind of how the US switched from the 1903 to the M1 Garand, or the M14 to the M16. Over a period of years you go from it being the shiny new thing to everyone except the Marines and NG being issued them.

100,000 units per year, lets high-ball it and say total cost per unit is $1500 (to account for parts and armorer training):

$150 million.

Thats 0.02% of the military's budget. It seems like a vanishingly small amount of money to divert away from other things in order to give more flexibility and effectiveness to troops going overseas.

[Pancho Villa]

Of course, this is all theoretical. The US miliary has known since the '20s what the best riifle round for infantry combat was.

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Going back 90 years people who know have been asking for something better, objectively proving what would be better, and then not getting it.

[spyder]

I didn't think this thread would get this much attention... Now it's level headed folks arguing with operators, and pancho has entered the thread!