Increasing Small Arms Lethality in Afghanistan:Taking Back the Half-Kilometer

[MurphysLaw88GT]

I found this to be a generally interesting read. You may not think so, but here it is.

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA512331&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

[Reverend Cooper]

very interesting

[SSDude]

Read an article on this SDM training in "G&A Book of the AR15" Great idea long overdue for the theater these guys are working in. Their using civilian trainers since there aren't enough in the services to handle the demand. Oorah

[Russ Jerome]

I know Eugene is laughing in his grave every time he reads thise type of abstract :)

At almost the same time that the M14 rifle was standardized, the Armalite Company demonstrated a new rifle to the small arms community. It was designed by Eugene Stoner and was known as the AR10. It was designed for the 7.62x51-mm NATO cartridge and was reliable and lightweight. It had a simple design and used modern manufacturing techniques and materials. Word quickly spread about this new futuristic weapon and even the Army Ordnance Corps commented that with development it could be the next rifle of the U.S Armed Forces.48

Spent a lot of long nights partying with his son Michael in Mpls MN, close freind of my Mom's and her husband. Michael told the story too many times how his dad bitched about screwing up his AR-10 (308) autoloading rifle (AR).

[Lash]

7mm-08 AR's for everybody!!!!!


:headbang

Awesome read though.

[TheRX7Project]

I didn't read the whole thing but it makes 100% sense. I've known the 5.56 NATO round was in need of replacement for years. Especially after reports of soldiers in Iraq preferring to use a down'd enemy's AK47 in place of their M16 / M4.

[MurphysLaw88GT]

A British point of view. Pretty much the same. Not as professional and some of the info is dubious.

http://photos.imageevent.com/badgerdog/generalstorage/piclinks/Biting%20the%20Bullet%20-%20October%202009.pdf