because we're too busy fighting the last war(s) and GWoT made suppressors look way more useful than they actually are and DI doesn't get along great with suppressors
Grenade launchers will never take a rifle or SAW's place. Even with an XM25, you won't be able to employ it effectively at range. You would need something bordering on an autocannon to stretch a grenade's range enough to make it applicable in most engagements. That would greatly increase weight of the gun, and more importantly the weight of ammo. Grenade launchers will always be niche until we can find a way to make airburst munitions fly 500m at a minimal arc, which can be fired out of a launcher no heavier than 6 pounds with the grenades weighing no more than one pound a piece and having a 10 meter kill radius. We're not even close to that tech yet.
No it's because his employer, Armalite, sold the IP to Colt, and they had to find a way around it. I guarantee the AR-18 would've been gas impingement, had they held onto the rights.
There's a few things going on with it. >Piston is unironically better if doing some combination of a short barrel, full auto, or suppressor >Doing multiple of these things was not really an issue until somewhat recently, and even then, DD figured out how to do a DI shorty well >Military also has a bunch of old, clapped out rifles that could use replacing >Not an immediate crisis but could be in some number of years >Beancounters won't deal with it until it's a crisis >OKAY, FRICK YOU, THEN. WE'RE ADOPTING ENTIRELY NEW RIFLES IN THIS NEW SYSTEM SO WE CAN GET NEW SHIT THAT'S ALSO BETTER FOR WHAT WE PLAN TO BE DOING.
Tax payer money burning a hole in the defense budgets pocket.
di is stinky dirty and causes too many issues
Not with quality AR-15's
>muh Vietnam memes
The issues were addressed by 1967
Don’t post that grifting homosexual
Where else might I find video of an unsuppressed AR-15 with a minimum cyclic rate of 900 RPM, its thirty-round magazine expended in one trigger pull?
>remote camera
Youtube boomers can't handle someone might be able stand off angle downrange, breaking the 180 slightly and still be safe.
>medium-stoke
>gun starts talking to ghosts during a battle
because we're too busy fighting the last war(s) and GWoT made suppressors look way more useful than they actually are and DI doesn't get along great with suppressors
>suppressors not useful
>Reduces DB
>Increases muzzle velocity
Lol
>not == more
This. Massively homosexual obsession with battle drill 6. Anything done at range needs be HE. They more light cheap semi auto GL.
Grenade launchers will never take a rifle or SAW's place. Even with an XM25, you won't be able to employ it effectively at range. You would need something bordering on an autocannon to stretch a grenade's range enough to make it applicable in most engagements. That would greatly increase weight of the gun, and more importantly the weight of ammo. Grenade launchers will always be niche until we can find a way to make airburst munitions fly 500m at a minimal arc, which can be fired out of a launcher no heavier than 6 pounds with the grenades weighing no more than one pound a piece and having a 10 meter kill radius. We're not even close to that tech yet.
Having folding stocks is worth ditching Direct Impingement.
>t. Sigger
Stoner invented the AR180/18 to fix his prior inventions, the M16, AR10, and AR15.
No it's because his employer, Armalite, sold the IP to Colt, and they had to find a way around it. I guarantee the AR-18 would've been gas impingement, had they held onto the rights.
There's a few things going on with it.
>Piston is unironically better if doing some combination of a short barrel, full auto, or suppressor
>Doing multiple of these things was not really an issue until somewhat recently, and even then, DD figured out how to do a DI shorty well
>Military also has a bunch of old, clapped out rifles that could use replacing
>Not an immediate crisis but could be in some number of years
>Beancounters won't deal with it until it's a crisis
>OKAY, FRICK YOU, THEN. WE'RE ADOPTING ENTIRELY NEW RIFLES IN THIS NEW SYSTEM SO WE CAN GET NEW SHIT THAT'S ALSO BETTER FOR WHAT WE PLAN TO BE DOING.
What is it, and do they make one with fixed irons?