Army's new machine gun will blast like battle tanks

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“The well-known and loved M249 SAWs were already beasts — now the Army’s light machine gun is going to get even more powerful.”

Because the SAW is a beast...said no one ever.

What a dumb article from Faux News.

Nothing man portable will have the firepower of a battle tank or cannon, but the “journalist” probably doesn’t know an M9 from an M11 from an M4 from an M109...
 
What hype.
The typical chamber pressure of an assault rifle / squad automatic weapon is given in the article as 45,000 psi.
But this squad automatic weapon weapon's cartridge's chamber pressure is 60,000 psi same as that of an M1 Abrams tank's main gun according to the article.
Army's new machine gun will blast like battle tanks
 
tark said:
This person doesn't know a turd from a turnip.
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In High School I was very into muscle cars. The import scene was just cTching on and those guys annoyed the &*$## our of me. They’d go on and on about horsepower figures on their high winding cars. What they didn’t get was torque was what gets a car moving. Torque and lots of it is what good old American muscle cars make. Horsepower numbers aren’t as impressive as V8 don’t have to be spun to the insane speeds that imports go to make the inflated horsepower numbers.

Needless to say there were (and still are) many import drivers who lost races because they didn’t understand the numbers.

This author seems to be like the import crowd. She found figures that sound impressive. They’re big and sound cool just like those horsepower numbers. She doesn’t understand what the numbers mean and how they’re used. Worse she doesn’t make any effort to address the other factors.
 
When I read that article yesterday, my first, second, and total reaction was that the writer was entirely completely and utterly ignorant of anything to do with firearms. Not even a glimmer of a clue. More or less typical of the press nowadays.
 
Lots of news and magazine writers - operate strictly from the mailings they get from manufacturers (or anyone else with an axe to grind..). Given the tidbits they're fed they cobble up something that's "new, striking, interesting" and pitch it to their bosses (who always need copy to feed their mills...). The result is stuff that's initially eye catching but doesn't hold water if you actually know something about the topic....

I've been writing one or two articles a year over the years for fishing magazines but all of that came to a sudden end a few years back when most magazines found themselves is such dire financial straits that they couldn't afford even that small cost... so their days are numbered. I never wrote about gun issues since my main interest was always fishing topics - but the writing has been on the wall for magazines and I'm sure that it won't get one bit better as in house hacks put together articles without ever leaving their desks...

You can find a lot more really solid info right here most days....
 
Nevermind, read the article and it is a ridiculous article.
 
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Hype based on chamber pressure and crappy reporting. There is almost no relevant information. Typical of the media.
 
^ That’s a good observation too. Not only do they not know firearms, they took a creative writing class instead of physics.
 
The Army wants an 80 Kpsa round? I don't know how they are going to do that with cased ammunition. Brass and steel have their limits. I don't know about the pressure limits of caseless ammunition, the mechanism still has to have a means of sealing the chamber, and I don't know how they accomplished that in the German caseless rifles, that experiment ended, don't know why.
 
Slamfire said:
The Army wants an 80 Kpsa round? I don't know how they are going to do that with cased ammunition. Brass and steel have their limits. I don't know about the pressure limits of caseless ammunition, the mechanism still has to have a means of sealing the chamber, and I don't know how they accomplished that in the German caseless rifles, that experiment ended, don't know why.
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Textron got the contract. They are making a Cased Telescopic round:

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog...-62mm-machine-guns-textron-display-ausa-2017/
 
Aim1 said:
What the heck is cased ammunition? Never seen that before.

What’s the benefit of it?
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Take a look at this:


Could a New Type of Ammo Be a Game Changer for the U.S. Military?

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/could-new-type-ammo-be-game-changer-the-us-military-23342

and this:

CASED TELESCOPED SMALL ARMS SYSTEMS

https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2014/armaments/Wed16533_Shipley.pdf

The Army should stop piddling around and adopt the Nuke 50

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Sistema1927 said:
60K chamber pressure? I never knew that my .308 blasts like an M1 Abrams.
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Apparently my S&W 460 mag is also a tank busting revolver.

I'm waiting for the next story about the military's next weapons.

"The new rifle for the US military has an unbelievable chamber pleasure that is so high that when fired, projectiles are moving fast enough that they actually go back in time and kill enemy soldiers before they even join enemy militaries or terrorist organizations. The newly developed cartridge is called the 1.21 Gigawatt round, and the rifle has been dubbed the "Flux Capacitor". Handguns that use the same ammunition are in development as well and will be known as the "Great Scott!""
 
 
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