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The Army is looking for a rifle to replace the m16
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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Thomas" data-source="post: 470866" data-attributes="member: 15748"><p>I'm on board with that. The 25mm I've seen is pretty impressive, no doubt about that. It should be, as the rounds I saw were then running about $800 a shot! Preproduction stuff and all that, so yeah, the prices would drop dramatically if they went into actual production. Still, they're not like a $3 piece of 50 BMG brass with a dollar or so's worth of powder and a $2 bullet, either. Cost effectivness study I saw showed what the rounds could accomplish with just a few rounds, compared with the several cases of ammo which a conventional M2 would be need to accomplish the same thing. Military economics, it's a wonderful thing.</p><p> </p><p>Still, I recall some studies (and I'm sure several folks here are familiar with them) during the VietNam years that showed that it took something like 50,000 rounds of 5.56mm and 7.62mm to inflict a single NVA casualty. Somehow, I don't think the round's accuracy or energy levels were the real problem there, if you get my drift. Unfortunately, we're still dealing with some of that same mind set.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Thomas, post: 470866, member: 15748"] I'm on board with that. The 25mm I've seen is pretty impressive, no doubt about that. It should be, as the rounds I saw were then running about $800 a shot! Preproduction stuff and all that, so yeah, the prices would drop dramatically if they went into actual production. Still, they're not like a $3 piece of 50 BMG brass with a dollar or so's worth of powder and a $2 bullet, either. Cost effectivness study I saw showed what the rounds could accomplish with just a few rounds, compared with the several cases of ammo which a conventional M2 would be need to accomplish the same thing. Military economics, it's a wonderful thing. Still, I recall some studies (and I'm sure several folks here are familiar with them) during the VietNam years that showed that it took something like 50,000 rounds of 5.56mm and 7.62mm to inflict a single NVA casualty. Somehow, I don't think the round's accuracy or energy levels were the real problem there, if you get my drift. Unfortunately, we're still dealing with some of that same mind set. [/QUOTE]
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