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Dear God no, bullpups are answers to questions no one was asking. In exchange for longer barrels we get shittier trigger pulls, worse magazine changes, an utter inability to show clear or clear failure to extract malfs without disassembling the rifle, and a chance of sweeping your own support...

If sig can get the nod for the M17 despite their offering not being drop safe, I find my supply of hope all used up and my supply of crazy overflowing.

Dunno. Hopefully all the above and then some. Maybe. If you’re going to do this (which I still think is a bad idea) then the Textron is the one to do. But Textron doesn’t have the $$$ to get votes from congress critters so Sig probably wins in the end.

Since redesigned. The early prototypes had the smart rail batteries in that fat ass fore grip. But test dummy GIs complained so there was a redesign.

Push through ejection with a rising and dropping breach block is mechanically simpler than extraction and ejection of metallic cases. You have to watch the operating principle animations to really appreciate it, especially if you are unfamiliar with the mechanical principles of self loading...

The smart rail and the new sight are on all three. Because the Army wants it that way.

the army said use our projectile, you build the cartridges around that.

Not tapered like 7.62x39 or 5.45x39, straight walled like 5.56. Not good for feeding from curved mags, same reason why 5.56 AKs suck unless they have special mags.

Because that (and/or making custom uppers with steel ramp extension inserts) wouldn’t give SIG a near monopoly on US Army small arms. The MIC wants feeding from the taxpayer trough.

Yes, no, sort of. M4s run hotter in terms of temp and energy in the system due to the gas port being closer to the chamber and this tends to put extra wear and tear of the locking lugs. Worse, the current M4 feed ramp extensions cut into the upper receiver don’t feed the tungsten tipped...

This does not matter in terms of volume of space occupied per round, bulk matter too.

The Sig and GD case is based on 7.62x51, just necked down to 6.8. Textron is shorter but thicker than 7.62x51 due to being telescoped. Volumetrically, from a number of rounds per standard shipping rectangular prism and rounds per standard magazine pouch point of view, this is a bad idea.

30rnd magazines for the FAL existed from the inception of the program. No one, not even Canada or Australia who actually issued and used the heavy barrel FAL with bipod in the automatic rifleman role, issued them, because they're fuck off massive and long and prevent you from taking a proper...

Doesn't matter when it's also bulkier volumetrically. This is why they're talking about 20rnd magazines in the first place. And any putative weight savings will just evaporate when commanders find more gear to add to your packing list anyway.

The US Army doesn't have that much of *anything* when compared to Russia or China. No one, least of all me, is saying that doesn't hold. I'm just tired of accepting tendentious arguments about 'but we neeeed this super rifle to defeat body armour' when small arms are only a small part of the...

As if we do not have hundred of years of experience on how to conduct an artillery battle. It's actually the one thing that the US Army is actually proficient at, since we still cling to the outdated firepower and attrition centric French model of war. But Artillery IS still the king...

Nondiv arty is a thing my man.

Literally what? Please stop proving your ignorance before real cannon cockers see it and descent on thee.

My dude, I am a trained small arms and towed weapons repairer, I know exactly what small arms can and cannot do. Infantry is the queen of battle and Artillery is the King. And we all know what Kings do to Queens. For the all the talk about 'muh overmatch' and 'that Russki body armour tho'...

Stop drinking the cool aide mate. If we get a fancy new ballistic computer optic out of this program, at least it will be something gained.