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at the most pessimistic, even if NGSW fails, we will at least have the switchover from brass to polymer cases, which will be a QOL improvement for the infantry, because polymer is way lighter than brass, and because it's an insulator, you can pick up freshly ejected polycases with your bare...

Even the biggest heaviest trauma plates don't cover the entire body. They protect the lungs and the major organs, but you can still die from taking a round in the shoulder, in the face, in the balls. There are diminishing returns with armor, weight and cost penalties involved in going up...

I don't think the recoil and weight penalty of 6.8mm is worth the tradeoff in the infantry rifle (as opposed to being the SAW round). Here's the problem: even in peer enemies, not everybody is wearing body armor, not everybody is wearing Level IV plates like America, the kind of plates that will...

A lot of things they want in NGSW are actually good, like polymer cased ammo and the smart scope*, but I think 6.8mm is a mistake borne of the GWOT and the fact that flag and field grade officers today were field grade and junior officers in Afghanistan getting shot at from outside effective...