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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: 471116" data-attributes="member: 15748"><p>As I said, the economics of all this is a bit interesting when you see how they actually formulate some of these decisions. Speaking with some of the guys from Lake City some time back, they mentioned how the cost of the weapon system is (really) insignificant, compared to the cost of the ammo it's expected to fire in its lifetime. Look at an M16/M4. A couple hundred bucks (or thereabouts) from the government contractor in a bulk purchase, but the military expects the barrel to last 10,000 rounds or more before a major overhaul. I've seen some that have undoubtedly gone a lot further than that, but yeah, that's a bucketload of 5.56mm rounds. Even at the volume price they can turn them out at the Army's LC ammo plant, 10K rounds of this dwarfs the purchase price of the gun itself. Holds true throughout most of our weapons systems, too. As far as feeling guilty, hey, that's what they paid us to do, right? Start throwing in M72 LAWs, SMAWs, TOWs or anything else that goes "boom" and it adds up. Then again, compared to the cost of two 110 stroy buildings, 4 commercial jets and 3,000 Americans, hey, just tell me what my part of the tab is and I'll write the check. Good on ya'!</p><p> </p><p>PSR is the current Precision Sniper Rifle contract that's up for bid. This is primarily driven by SOCOM, but they've been looking at all-branch issue (the big army) for this rifle as well. The contract makes no specification of caliber, just performance requirements for accuracy at range, energy on target, that sort of thing. Our own 338 is the odds-on favorite so far, and looking pretty good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Thomas, post: 471116, member: 15748"] As I said, the economics of all this is a bit interesting when you see how they actually formulate some of these decisions. Speaking with some of the guys from Lake City some time back, they mentioned how the cost of the weapon system is (really) insignificant, compared to the cost of the ammo it's expected to fire in its lifetime. Look at an M16/M4. A couple hundred bucks (or thereabouts) from the government contractor in a bulk purchase, but the military expects the barrel to last 10,000 rounds or more before a major overhaul. I've seen some that have undoubtedly gone a lot further than that, but yeah, that's a bucketload of 5.56mm rounds. Even at the volume price they can turn them out at the Army's LC ammo plant, 10K rounds of this dwarfs the purchase price of the gun itself. Holds true throughout most of our weapons systems, too. As far as feeling guilty, hey, that's what they paid us to do, right? Start throwing in M72 LAWs, SMAWs, TOWs or anything else that goes "boom" and it adds up. Then again, compared to the cost of two 110 stroy buildings, 4 commercial jets and 3,000 Americans, hey, just tell me what my part of the tab is and I'll write the check. Good on ya'! PSR is the current Precision Sniper Rifle contract that's up for bid. This is primarily driven by SOCOM, but they've been looking at all-branch issue (the big army) for this rifle as well. The contract makes no specification of caliber, just performance requirements for accuracy at range, energy on target, that sort of thing. Our own 338 is the odds-on favorite so far, and looking pretty good. [/QUOTE]
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