Looking at the THS timeline for two reasons.

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Pod guns came to Transhuman Space after they showed up in concept pictures for the US Army's "Future Warrior" initiative with a guy in a wetsuit and streamlined motorcycle helmet having a gun and mini-missile launcher mounted on his arm as if he were a BattleMech. The year after that the "pod" had sprouted a pistol grip and pod guns haven't been seen since.

no, what year are they introduced in the THS timeline?

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

We might already have changed standard ammo calibers with the new 6.8mm SAW if that works out. Migration to smaller calibers for rifle and machine gun ammo seems unlikely now though there are some interesting new pistol calibers under 9mm.

yeah... nah

Look 2100 might have been me trying it on, but now with even more countries going into NATO, I can only imagine the drama to change over to a new ammo standard any time soon.