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Originally Posted by cato
XM8 a good choice? Que? Perhaps if the determinant qualification was the ability to melt under sustained fire. There is MUCH open source material about the XM8's manifold failures available on duh innanet. Look at the result of the troop trials (with the Ranger Rgt., if I'm not mistaken). OFOGS is right (and I hope safe along with his precious charges) that there will be no change in personal weapon or caliber until something qualitatively superior comes along. As to the claim of the M256s putative inferiority, I'd say it belongs among such horse apples as "5.56 was designed to wound" urban legend. BS and WWW hearsay.
Cato
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Although I've heard of XM8/G36 receivers expanding under sustained fire, I've never heard of them actually melting, at least not under reasonable combat conditions.
And truth on there never being a replacement for the M16/M4 until something drastically improved comes out. It simply isn't economically and logistically feasible to replace them with something that is itself going to be eclipsed a year from its adoption.