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<blockquote data-quote="rc508pir" data-source="post: 3115684" data-attributes="member: 40091"><p>6.8 didnt offer enough improvement at long range to justify a change in caliber plus there was the reduction of ammo in the magazines.</p><p></p><p>Recently in the last year, General Milley (Army Chief of Staff), wanted to get rid of 5.56 and switch back to 7.62x51. It got shot down by the rest of the Army.</p><p></p><p>THe Army has been looking at a future in-between cartridge. .264 USA, 6.5 Creedmore, and .260 Remington, are top of the list in testing. At this point no one knows anything whether one of those will be a replacement for 556 or 762 or both, or if at all.</p><p></p><p>Like SMS said. THe Army paid a S***LOAD of money for M855A1 and M80A1. They're not going away anytime soon. That's not even taking into account that NATO isn't going to take yet another new cartridge being forced down their throats.</p><p></p><p>If anything, the military will most likely adopt something like the Cased Telescoped Ammunition like is being tested with the LSAT machineguns and carbines being developed by Textron.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rc508pir, post: 3115684, member: 40091"] 6.8 didnt offer enough improvement at long range to justify a change in caliber plus there was the reduction of ammo in the magazines. Recently in the last year, General Milley (Army Chief of Staff), wanted to get rid of 5.56 and switch back to 7.62x51. It got shot down by the rest of the Army. THe Army has been looking at a future in-between cartridge. .264 USA, 6.5 Creedmore, and .260 Remington, are top of the list in testing. At this point no one knows anything whether one of those will be a replacement for 556 or 762 or both, or if at all. Like SMS said. THe Army paid a S***LOAD of money for M855A1 and M80A1. They're not going away anytime soon. That's not even taking into account that NATO isn't going to take yet another new cartridge being forced down their throats. If anything, the military will most likely adopt something like the Cased Telescoped Ammunition like is being tested with the LSAT machineguns and carbines being developed by Textron. [/QUOTE]
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