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This Rifle Fires Plastic Ammo; The US Army Almost Adopted it.

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Published on 25 Mar 2024 / In Sports

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The US military almost adopted this very unique polymer cased ammo firing rifle. Today we take a deep dive into this very fascinating rifle.

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bigintol03
bigintol03 1 month ago

PLASTIC AMMO???

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bigintol03
bigintol03 1 month ago

Good God, what's coming next???

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

I would like to be working on something like this - but this as it stands is "almost perfect" out of the packet....

Like imagine if there were 4 holes in the end of the barrel, to use the gas, to counteract the muzzle rise - and they were at 9 o clock, 11, 1 and 3.... Well this is so well dialled in - if each hole was exactly 3mm, I'd be boring the one at 9 o'clock, out to 3.1mm and the one at 1 o'clock, to say 3.12 mm....

This is not a new rifle - and they said it's been tested to the shit house and it's fairly worn... but on automatic fire... I was impressed.....

It stayed on target - really well.

But this level of development - aside from running the barrel in a liquid film sleeve, and into a heat sink, I can't think of any way to improve it other than microscopic tooling changes, and "fine honing stone" adjustments.

Add in issues of longevity, keeping the dust out etc.. I can improve this, but it's really just "lapping it in" to get extraordinarily high levels of accuracy and precision.

The system - in terms of recoil reduction is remarkable - but that could be better... a lot better... But it's a system and ONE change is dependent upon many other changes - to make that one effect work.....

And every trade off, or enhanced desirable quality - will materially alter the gun design in significant ways.

But a drop from 50% recoil reduction, down to 25% - with increased target holding and accuracy - would be good.

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DIO DOOM NUTZ_TALICHADJESUS33

God Almighty FÜHRER SHANE You wrote an whole essay paper. All good thanks \G/

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DIO DOOM NUTZ_TALICHADJESUS33

FÜHRER SHANE yeah I would like to be working on something cool like this and industry however it's taken over by all needs and geeks and know it alls and some of its adapting Fun factor also I'm not all that smart when it comes to Maths and so on. The gun is cool however I'm not much a fan of Bull pups I prefer the old school daddy the STEYER AUG TRUE DIE HARD ACTION :D \G/

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DIO DOOM NUTZ_TALICHADJESUS33

FÜHRER SHANE I agree it is a advancement in weapons however I'm not liking the Fat Potato NUTSACK CAN on the End that would most definitely be higher than IRON SIGHTS on it that's a problem and I bet if it's got heavy mud dirt and other shite I bet it will be a JAM-O-MATIC and a knightmare for SOLDIERS to field strip. I Prefer the New AK'S they figured out how to get over the old problem of AKs Jamming alot of the Time and modernized it with Purple and Orange Lazerbeams even Sharks don't have those kind of Lazerbeams haha

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@DIO DOOM NUTZ_TALICHADJESUS33: In all practicality - it's just a machine... granted there are a lot of things going on when it fires, more so when it's automatic firing.... I am really impressed with it... Aside from the trigger issue - the design and operation of a fitted machine gun trigger - instead of a snipers trigger... There are ony 2 questions, "Is it human friendly?" (To use) and "Does it work well?" - yes.

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DIO DOOM NUTZ_TALICHADJESUS33

FÜHRER SHANE I agree with you and not much to improve on as it will effect it elsewhere aka trade offs and not a Fan of Plastic Ammo I'm always FULL METAL JACKET AMMO guy I enjoy the Sound doemwnside is its gotta be lubed and weight also metal corrodes not sure what Plastic does in crazy high heat and that FULL AUTO SOUNDED AWESUM looked and felt Awesum and controlable too. SIG SPEAR GREAT CHOICE \G/

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@DIO DOOM NUTZ_TALICHADJESUS33: The only real improvements that can be made, as it stands, are very fine improvements... Thse 20 round groupings on full auto, at 10 meters is pretty impressive... What I am talking about dialling into is getting a grouping like that, at 50 meters on full auto... That I guess is probably the limit of a manually held firearm.

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DIO DOOM NUTZ_TALICHADJESUS33

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Yeah Your on the money with that as you know the thing is they soon want to be moving closer and closer to Lazer/Fusion weapons kinda like Terminator 2 however until they can outperform bullets its a pipedream, 50 meters accurate Full auto now that's something as you know though Small arms fire is accurate with 3 round burst to single rounds the longer the distance and I doubt if you have to shoot from a Soccer mini van or armored up Land rover I doubt it would be effective swinging that big chunky bullpup in the car and out the window no wonder most TEAMS go with PDWs rifle or MP5s. The chase and hunt for the perfect guns goes on haha \G/

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