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