All it'll take will be a few magazine articles about how the *new M-8* is inaccurate and accordingly is shunned by the match shooters at Camp Perry, who still use the NM tuned versions of the M16A2. Why, the Army-taught Small Arms Firing School at Perry even uses the well-known M16A2 to introduce new shooters to the discipline- if the XM-8 was any good, they'd use the better rifle.
And note too the similarities between the XM-8 and the L85/L85A1/L85A2 which near-bankrupted the British Army trying to get the things to work, and for which the eventual overhaul contractor was H&K. Are they trying to sell the U.S. Army a similar lemon in hopes of getting another, bvigger *fixit* contract package?
Wait until 60 Minutes does for the XM8 what it did for the Twin 40mm Sergeant York DIVADS SPAA gun, and takes a few project officer careers with it....If that's how H&K wants to play it. If American shooters are willing to make *S&W Must Die* the political slogan and watchword for a company that forgot who pays the bills for their toys, we can surely do an even better job on a foreign company from the land of barbed wire camps, gas chambers and ovens.