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IMO he's being forced out for not being pale enough, pro-Trump enough, and/or fascist enough.
He is being bypassed in his own command. That is why he quit I think. Hegseth put the Marines in charge of the operation in the Caribbean vs Venezuela instead of SOUTHCOM. It just made him look useless.
these are not mutually exclusive right? why fire someone and leave a direct path of accountability when you can induce them to remove themselves?
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Polymer cased telescoped ammunition weight saving is 37% the same as conventional polymer cased. Sig’s ammo met the minimum reduction requirement of 20%. The “half” or rather 40% would have been caseless ammunition however that imposed the cost, reliability and complexity issues. Basically Caseless isn’t ready for prime time still. Maybe in the 2060s.
This complaint is often repeated by people clearly never used an actual old battle rifle.
3-4 MOA is combat MOA. The M4A1 is rated to 3-4 MOA.
Sub MOA is a specialist weapon with special ammunition. A modified accuraized M4 will give you smaller groups so would a modified M14 will give you 1-2 MOA. Most combat ones 3-4MOA.
For combat purposes the M7 and M250 are firing high velocity high pressure penetration type ammunition. That’s not match grade. 3-4MOA is the accepted accuracy of a service rifle. With match grade reduced velocity reduced pressure more specialized tips you can get better dispersion.
The NGSW was driven by “Overmatch” the want of better range but especially better penetration performance with the proliferation of Level III equivalent armor. Intermittent caliber ammunition could penetrate such with AP ammunition but at significantly shorter ranges that the 300m most infantry combat is quoted at taking place.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
I never said Same.
Ammunition weight is only part of the equation. The 20% met the minimum required reduction vs brass cased equivalent. Lone star/True velocity gave better weight savings on the weapon but…
The M7 /M250 came with an established industrial base, fairly good reliability, AR based manual of arms, magazines that fit in issue web gear.
I personally think it was the M250 and Sig’s in house suppressor and ammunition (even the magazine) that won the competition. Textron had the Ammunition HK the weapons a third party the suppressor.
True velocity was the Ammo, Lonestar the designer, Beretta the weapon manufacturer a fourth party the suppressor. That put them in a position to be lowest bidder to boot. Despite the memes that how it usually works.
Textron didn’t survive deep into the down select. It’s never been clear what happened but they didn’t make the cut.
Ammunition weight is only part of the equation. The 20% met the minimum required reduction vs brass cased equivalent. Lone star/True velocity gave better weight savings on the weapon but…
The M7 /M250 came with an established industrial base, fairly good reliability, AR based manual of arms, magazines that fit in issue web gear.
I personally think it was the M250 and Sig’s in house suppressor and ammunition (even the magazine) that won the competition. Textron had the Ammunition HK the weapons a third party the suppressor.
True velocity was the Ammo, Lonestar the designer, Beretta the weapon manufacturer a fourth party the suppressor. That put them in a position to be lowest bidder to boot. Despite the memes that how it usually works.
The article fails to consider that if the US can build Shaheeds with a 3000km+ range, China can most certainly build many more and also at lower cost.
So if Guam is under continuous attack, how is it going to be resupplied?
The same logic applies to Japan and elsewhere within the 1IC.
I'm still surprised it took so long for Shaheeds to be appreciated.
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An old post I wrote below from 3 years ago, on how Shaheeds will change long-range strike in the Western Pacific.
sinodefenceforum.com/t/lessons-for-china-to-learn-from-ukraine-conflict-for-taiwan-scenario.8923/page-242#post-913491