![]() The advantage of 556 was the reduced weight of lugging the ammo about, disadvantage is it's very susceptible to wind and penetration i understand, i've range shot SA80 out to 600 meters which was fun with a spotter and moving targets, even with a mild wind you are aiming off a good distance. I've messed about with the M16 in its full length version, felt flimsy and breakable but was nice and light, again not so great indoors, M4 better but no idea on it's accuracy. The bullpup design, once you got used to it was fine, i understand the H&K fixes made it a far better / reliable bit of kit, i certainly found it easer than the elephant gun SLR. I carried SLR and SA80 whilst in uk forces, training to do CQB, house clearance etc with both, the SA80 is a bit of a lump but very accurate, SUSAT at the time helped as well, it had it's problems, unreliable, broken firing pins and dropped mags etc. 276 was dropped - with great relief, I suspect. This suffered various problems of weight, recoil, muzzle blast and rapid barrel heating, but then WW1 started so the. ![]() ![]() 303 with a much more powerful round in the interests of effective long-range shooting (the British had been outranged in the Boer War). 276 Enfield of around 1910, which was meant to replace the. The British Army is watching what the US is doing, but without any commitment to follow suit (so far). Other NATO nations have considerable reservations about this rifle/ammunition combination because of its weight and recoil. ![]() To achieve this, the ammunition needs to be significantly more powerful than the current 7.62 mm NATO (which is already twice as powerful as the 5.56 mm). The Army has developed a 6.8 mm bullet and all contenders are required to use that bullet, and to fire it at a high enough velocity to penetrate military body armour at normal battle ranges. They have been holding a competition to select the Next Generation Squad Weapon (to be precise, two weapons: a rifle, and an automatic rifle). However, it appears that the USA is planning the exact opposite. A standard general-purpose infantry rifle firing a general-purpose cartridge (reasonably good in all circumstances rather than great at some things and rubbish at others) would be well worth having IMO. ![]()
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