Army Selects Firms To Design Next High-Tech Assault Rifle For "Decades Of Hybrid Wars"

[Miker12]

Currently, the Army is in a transitional period [quiet period] before the next round of wars start. President Trump has infused the Pentagon with more than $700 billion this fiscal year, in the attempt to plug significant gaps and expand emerging technologies. For instance, the Army has made it clear that it will replace its three decades old M249 light machine gun and the Colt M4 Modular Weapon System Carbine, with a lightweight and higher chamber pressure assault rifle.

Back in March, we documented how the Army selected the Textron/AAI Corp. LSAT (Lightweight Small Arms Technologies) Cased Telescoped Machine Gun, a new high-tech assault rifle that can release a high rate of specialty designed bullets with as much chamber pressure as an M1A2 Abrams tank to pierce through the world’s most advanced body armor, into the Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle (NGSAR) program.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-23/army-selects-firms-design-next-high-tech-assault-rifle-decades-hybrid-wars

 

[Azbuilder]

I like the note: "Proven to reduce training and maintenance time." Where have I heard that before....hmmm

 

[Harrier]

I wasn't able to zoom in on the brochure enough to see any detail but it looks like the weapons are just current designs modified with some off the shelf commercial accessories... like us civys do already - add a folding or telescoping butt-stock, a rail system, bipod, etc... make it look kool.

The ammo is another question - it looks like they have encased everything into a shotgun hull type of thing... this could spell the doom to reloading in the long run. At first the military brass supply would dry up and if it proves successful, commercial designs may eventually follow and while their at it could make them so they're not reloadable.

As for the reference to firing at M1 tank chamber pressures... what a crock of smoke and mirrors... Another article I read mentioned that too (like they are trying to impress with the WOW factor)... in that one, they claimed the current rifles typically fire at about 45 ksi (which converts to 45000 psi) and that the M1 Abrams typically operates at 60ksi... So wow, the new gun will operate at the same pressures the old one does but now we get to say it is equal to an M1 tank...

I just hate it when they fill marketing with their acronyms, especially if they are only mentioning it once or twice.

Let's see the laser weapons and light sabers...