Wha...? Knight's Armament PDW?

[Nightcrawler]

I happened across this on the Knights Armament webpage. Apparently, they're making a small select-fire assault rifle on a proprietary 6x30mm cartridge. The idea is that it gets better ballistics out of an 8-10" barrel than 5.56mm.

LINK

Note that the link is to a .PDF file, so you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

The layout of the thing is pretty conventional. It looks a lot like the Robinson XCR, actually.

Empty weight is listed at 4.5 pounds. Length is 28" overall, 19.5" with the stock folded. Ballistics is reported as a 65 grain 6mm bullet clocking 2,425 feet per second from a 10" barrel.

 

[HorseSoldier]

Looks interesting, but I'm not sure who it would be interesting for -- losing caliber commonality means it's not really suitable for non-combat conventional troops who need a PDW.

Not comparing ballistics to Mk 262 77 grain 5.56mm ammo makes me wonder how it stacks up to 5.56mm for special operations units that might want more thump from short barrel weapons. (Common caliber is another issue for those folks as well.)

Maybe contractors, but the friends of mine who've done that sort of work mostly prefer 5.56mm M4 types when possible.

I wonder how the round stacks up against just using .30 Carbine from a short barrel? Armor penetration would be worse with the .30 Carbine round, but that heavier bullet should provide pretty good thump at the ranges their concerned with -- and ammo is light and compact.

 

[The Grand Inquisitor]

Wow, a PDW that looks like an M4 made to look like a Krinkov...PLUS, it's in a new, untested cartridge that may be total crap!


Where can we sign up?

Also, coming from KAC, it's probably $10,000.