Sig wins Next Gen Squad Weapon

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Interesting. The article says “The weapon takes 6.8mm cartridges and will come in both rifle and automatic rifle variants.” Is that the 6.8 SPC? Granted the contract is only to supply certain formations of the Armed Forces and not everyone, but it could still help make that cartridge more widely available and more attractive as a civilian AR caliber of choice.
 

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Interesting. The article says “The weapon takes 6.8mm cartridges and will come in both rifle and automatic rifle variants.” Is that the 6.8 SPC? Granted the contract is only to supply certain formations of the Armed Forces and not everyone, but it could still help make that cartridge more widely available and more attractive as a civilian AR caliber of choice.
No not SPC. Beginning with the program, the Army provided a projectile and performance requirements, and allowed the vendors to come up with their respective cartridges to meet those requirements. The Army knew if they specified a cartridge, it would get FUBAR'd. The weapon is based solely on a projectile. If you go look up the NGSW program, you'll be able to see kind of the progress.

Sig stuck with a more reliable traditional cartridge whereas GD and Textron leaned on a polymer case. Textron had the "case-telescoped" cartridge-not a successful design to say the least.
 

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It's a good gun. Both of them.
I have some concerns about the cartridge, 80,000 psi to get 270 ballistics out of a short barrel. You can bet it will be one loud son of a gun and barrel life will be short. Recoil will be up there pretty close to the 308. Ammo will be both bulkier and heavier than the 5.56.
 

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First steps away from the mouse killer. If it is a success you can bet they will soon be replacing the 5.56 in all units.
 

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