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Originally Posted by Anthony
"Not enough improvement to be worth the trouble" has been the fate of many new schemes for small arms. This is also the likely fate of any schemes for military small arms that are not 5.56mm.
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Indeed, especially as what really matters is selling the new weapon and ammo to the US military, and their last major requirement for a new infantry rifle, for the ACR trials, required such an improvement in hit chance that the only realistic way of meeting it with a small arm would be to use a belt-fed machinegun. Of course, since then they've been moving to weapons that are
worse than the M16A2 at the long-range accuracy part of the requirement, and without bothering with full trial and tender processes, so it seems they've decided that the ACR requirements were in error (not that they've actually said this officially).