I quite sympathize, as do about 100,000 deaths of despair from each year in the government’s euthenasia campaign against the Nation of Settlers, now to the point that an entire demographic is experiencing lowering life expediencies. That the “Libertarian” American Enterprise Institute celebrates this euthenasia program is one reason people aren’t bothering with NH and opting for the maggots. Death before dishonor.
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When one looks at military weaponry, there are two sides to the process.
One side is, or should be, an investigation of the possibilities of x-and-such. This has been done in military jets a moderate amount - more than any Eastern Bloc state has done. People rave about China’s increases in military might, but no one has shown that any of it would stand the test of combat. Used to be a lot of this development and visualization was done by private means. Look at the 19th century to see just all the “new” weaponry that was invented. Some survived, some got modified then survived, some disappeared.
The second side is adapting the weaponry to military use. We found use for the Gatling Gun, self-contained cartridges, breechloading weapons, semi- and full-auto weaponry. We saw balloons first used for recon in he Civil War, first use of long range sniping, first use of railroads for supply, first iron-clad ships, first submarine. Some of this was state-sponsored, but most was private individuals with an idea.
Today the Army is looking for a “new” (old - 6.8 SPC) cartridge to allegedly fill a gap in their range. What they haven’t done is properly evaluate their tried-and-true available cartridges. 7.62X51 NATO does pretty much everything they are looking for, is in the system, has numerous platforms already available for using it, and is certainly compatible with machine guns (see the M-60). ?Why are they going to a new platform no one is accustomed to - ?because it’s Tuesday.
Many of the current arguments are specious. “The magazine isn’t big enough - only 20 rounds!” ?Really. We fought the whole Vietnam War with 20 round magazines - and won the military part. We fought the Korean and WWII wars with eight round clips! Go to an IPSC match and watch an “El Presidente” shot. That’s three widely spaced silhouette targets, each of which you must engage with two shots, then a mandatory reload, and do it again. So you shoot 6 targets, two shots each, with a reload in the middle. EVEN an average competitor like me could shoot that is just over 4 seconds. Combat haa nothing to do with magazine size, bullet weight, etc. These things can make a combat engagement a bit easier or harder to overcome, but it will be the spirit and training of the individual soldier that wins the day
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From the Babylon Bee, “California Fleein’ ”:
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That will win friends in the amateur radio community
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BTW: I seemed to recall that NH had one of the highest rates of deaths of despair due to opoids – which was true for almost the entirety of the last decade, with a let-up in 2020, but it has apparently come roaring back in a Narcan-resistant strain:
“The real scary part about that is xylazine is not impacted by Narcan, so someone could consume what they believe is heroin, but it has synthetic fentanyl in it and xylazine,” Stawasz said. “When we give our Narcan, it’s not going to have any effect on them.”
I’m not going to blame this on the AEI, but if working class white heterosexual men are moving to NH to escape the Trump Derangement Syndrome that afflicted even AEI guys like Charles Murray, and they find themselves in an area where they have TDS afflicting the leftists and the libertarians alike, I can see why they’d just give up and check out.
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I was waiting for you to drive up in your M38 and start firing the M-14.
IIRC, the 5.56x45 weighs a bit less than half what 7.62x51 does, so you can carry twice as many rounds. Where does the 6.8x51 fall?
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The biggest issue with the 6.8x51 is the trimetallic case. Seems problematic in several related aspects.
Cost?
Shelf life?
Forced decoupling of the military and civilian ammo markets?
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Which is one reason why the “elite” institutions try to impose the same (or greater) nuttiness on the lesser institutions.
A second tier school could, in theory, say that it will only admit students with SAT scores that exceed the 50th percentile at the top tier schools. You might be able to have cutoffs (your zeroth percentiles) of 760 math and 740 verbal (excuse my lack of knowledge of whatever score inflation there has been).
If nothing changed at the top tier schools, they might have more 800/800 students than you did, but your frosh math class learning rate is determined by your zeroth percentile student (unless you segregate your students) who may have a score 70 points higher than the zeroth percentile student at the top tier school.
If that happened, some of those 800/000 students might voluntarily decide to go to your school for better learning opportunity. That can’t be tolerated.
So the lesser schools are forced to do the same by government and accreditation bodies and corporate employers but with a progressively diminished pool of “diverse” applicants.
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According to the Wikipedia page for the .277 Fury cartridge, SIG considers that cartridge, identical to the military “6.8×51mm Common Cartridge”, as the standard round for their civilian semi-automatic SIG MCX Spear (which can also, with a barrel change, fire 7.62×51 mm NATO and 6.5 Creedmoor). The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI) officially accepted the cartridge under the name .277 SIG Fury in 2020. This is the trimetallic case, which is required to withstand the 80,000 PSI chamber pressure for 3000 feet per second muzzle velocity (16 inch barrel) with an 8.7 gram bullet. A commercial “.277 Fury Elite FMJ” cartridge with conventional brass construction is available that fires the same projectile at 2750 feet per second.
As I understand it, the military procurement will be exclusively for the hybrid cartridge, but the civilian market may choose a less expensive (and probably easier to reload) brass alternative with less muzzle velocity.
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Here is another completely predictable (yet, when it happens, “unexpected”) consequence of eliminating standard test results in admission to élite professional schools.
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. True. The 5.56 does weigh way less than 7.62. But the difference in 7.62 and 6.8 isn’t worth arguing about - maybe a magazine. We carried 42 mags per man in Nam. You won’t be carrying anything near that with either 6.8 or 7.62. You’ll be lucky to carry half that - 20 mags would be a load.
So when you hear the SpecOps guys complaining FOR the 5.56, they have a point. THEY mostly sneak in, fight CQB-type actions where round count can be important and weight IS, but that argument hasn’t been clearly done for the new round/rifle.
I dunno. Maybe the 5.56 is the best general infantry caliber. I love that you can cart a boatload of ammo but hate that my men would be limited to 400 yds. OTOH one of the first lessons I learned in Basic School was that my job was to kill the enemy with something BIGGER than a 5.56. So when we got into contact I was on the horn calling for arty, mortars, air strikes, what have you.
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IIRC, they wanted something that had better muzzle energy from a short barrel than did the 5.56.
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.300 BLK is made for just that.
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The German Federal Constitutional Court has updated its logo, keeping its mouth shut and removing the talons which might imply power to enforce the Basic Law.
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No mention of FUSAG:
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