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[Burncycle360]

Duration Suppression Aggressive Semiautomatic Fire

 

We should have several members in the squad dedicated to this outstanding technique!

We can call them...

Riflemen.

Edited by Burncycle360, 08 August 2018 - 2026 PM.

[Simon Tan]

Madminutemen

[bojan]

https://www.thefirea...apons-load-out/

File under "told you"

 

The 8 man infantry section will now be equipped with 1 general purpose machine gun (the 7.62x51mm L7A2 /FN MAG), 1 L129A1 7.62x51mm Sharpshooter Rifle, 2 L85A2 or A3’s with underslung L123A1 40mm grenade launcher (the AG SA80, an adaptation of Heckler & Koch’s AG36) and 4 standard L85A2 or A3 rifles.

[Simon Tan]

Poor bastards. Better get some native porters.

[bojan]

Wasn't there a study that concluded that weapons and ammo are actually lesser part of the soldier's load today?

[Simon Tan]

Malaysian 8 man infantry section has;- 1xMinimi, 1x Milkor 40mm GL, 1 x RPG, 7 x M4A1. Overloaded.

[bojan]

Our new mech inf squad is 2 x M84 (PKM), 1 x M76, 4 x M70... It also appears that ordinary infantry is finally ditching M72 (RPK), and it appears it will be replaced with a second M76 DMR for 8-men section with 1 x M84, 2 x M76, 5 x M70.

Edited by bojan, 09 September 2018 - 1852 PM.

[MiloMorai]

wrong thread

Edited by MiloMorai, 05 October 2018 - 0813 AM.

[2805662]

A government 6.8mm projectile has been specified for Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW). NGSW includes the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle (NGSW-R) and the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Automatic Rifle (NGSW-AR).

Specifiying the projectile, but not the cartridge leaves OEM to propose novel cartridge types, such as polymer, hybrid, of case-telescoped rounds.

https://www.fbo.gov/...b=core&_cview=0

[shep854]

More:

https://www.thefirea...-squad-weapons/

BREAKING: US Army to REBOOT Next Generation Squad Weapons Program?

[TTK Ciar]

6.8mm is too wide :-( assuming 2000J muzzle energy, getting good muzzle velocity would make it too light to have a good ballistic coefficient due to low sectional density, and a 6.8mm bullet with a high enough sectional density to have a good ballistic coefficient would have too low a velocity to achieve a high degree of fragmentation in flesh.

120gr spire-point bullet @ 2000J = 2350 feet/sec, with G1 BC of about 0.39, too slow for good fragmentation.

85gr spire-point bullet @ 2000J = 2800 feet/sec, with G1 BC of only about 0.23

If you want high velocity with a high ballistic coefficient at a reasonable energy (which determines recoil and cartridge weight), you have to go with a smaller diameter projectile.

[Loopycrank]

Here's the thing; if you scale a bullet linearly, the ballistic coefficient also increases linearly.

 

But the mass goes up cubicly.