That’s funny. I just read something last week it was going to be a 6.5 variant of something.
6.8, might as well adopt the 7.62x39. Good to about 300/500 then you are throwing rocks.
Today, it has been announced that SIG Sauer have won the contract to provide both the NGSW-Rifle and NGSW-Automatic Rifle. An initial delivery order contract worth $20.4 million has been awarded. SIG’s MCX 6.8 Spear will be designated the XM5 Rifle and the LMG-6.8 belt-fed will be designated the XM250 – designations directly following on from the M4/M4A1 Carbine and M249 SAW which the new weapons will replace. SIG’s selection means that the US Army’s new 6.8mm round will be based on a hybrid metallic case, not the polymer-based design developed by True Velocity.
Say goodbye to all your poop eating direct impingement guns boomers. The Next Generation Squad Weapon is here in 6.8x51. It's a piston gun. Yes they are wasting money on ammo so hot it needs a hybrid case, which burns barrels worse than the STD I gave your mom last night. But its your money to waste, not theirs. So shut yer redneck piehole and crack a redpillbull.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2022/04/19/sig-sauer-wins-ngsw/
Dont worry for the low low price of $38,000.00 plus $34.99 shipping, plus $400 in stamp taxes, plus $150 in NFA transfer fees, plus 1.9% of the final sales price for insurance, you can get ittodayin 10-12 months with ATF permission (because this is the 13" SBR with suppressor).
AR platform to the current US army is like a bad STD no matter what name you put on the penicillin it keeps coming back....Yep. Called it months ago. Did they learn from the M14, or are we doing that again? Time will tell . . .
But this time they hot rodded it up to 80k PSI chamber pressure and have muzzle energy 2-3x that of 5.56. Once Russia invaded Ukraine I figured OVERMATCH would win the day.AR platform to the current US army is like a bad STD no matter what name you put on the penicillin it keeps coming back....
By the time they make the ammo, UKR war will be over and you and I will be planted in a grave. Actually, I expect to be cremated in space and scattered over the dark side of the moon.But this time they hot rodded it up to 80k PSI chamber pressure and have muzzle energy 2-3x that of 5.56. Once Russia invaded Ukraine I figured OVERMATCH would win the day.
The troops are going to love it . . .
One bright spot is that the new optic looks pretty cool. Might actually be good, too.
Still have no clue why they don't just jump to grendel and call it a day.
What recoil an issue,ww1 303!3006, ww2 3006,Korea 3006…what has happened to the younger generation? Pronoun learning! Equity…not on the battlefield.The "caseless" telescoping polymer ammo concept is cool. I have no major objections to them replacing the SAW, but I think replacing the M4 with something chambered in this is a bad idea. As Clandestine pointed out, the recoil is going to be significantly greater than 5.56 (heavier projectile being pushed to as high as 3500 fps out of a 14.5"ish barrel). Assuming they get to the point of testing this in an assault rifle format, I don't think the tests will be favorable unless they cook the books.
I am glad the Army is throwing down the dev money to try something new. Relying on the free market for completely revolutionary solutions to the admittedly overblown neo-Soviet threat of new body armor is a bad idea. That said I still think the 6.8 caseless telescoping is going to be a flop to replace the M4. Maybe after they get done watching this cartridge push a bunch of 140lb privates around the range while they flinch from the recoil and miss in a comical fashion, they will start looking at smaller projectiles and solutions that don't torch barrels after 1500 rounds. I expect caseless telescoping really is part of a solution to replacing the M4 with a truly better weapon, but until we develop standard issue exoskeletons, I don't think high recoil firearms are in the cards.
Pushing the envelope to hard. Should have tried the Swede 6.5x55 it was also made in a semi auto,update rinse adopt!Sadly this will cost lives. Rounds that generate the chamber pressures and velocity they are seeking will lead to extraction issues and massive throat erosion.
Then they will issue these harder recoiling and heavier systems to female combat troops.