This is one of the most contentious points for the new rifle, the fact soldiers ammunition allotment over the same space and weight will be fewer rounds and that more capable ammunition won’t make up the difference. It is the primary individual rifle, partnered with the XM250, and if you put a rifle squad together with M14’s and M60’s it would look a whole lot like the squad with XM5’s and XM250’s at first glance.Ĭapacity limitations will be similar, magazines and belts taking up more space than their 5.56 counterparts and offering only 20 or 25 rounds instead of the 30’s. The XM5 is like the M14 in capacity and role. Let’s acknowledge that we have progressed beyond dated concepts. It’s the same incomplete logic loop where we get 5.56 is a “poodle shooter”, or “designed to wound”. It the vehement grafting to one fact or position that overshadows the balance of nuances involved.
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