Army kills new carbine

[Moby]

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The Army has half a million M4 carbines, the lightweight version of the Vietnam-vintage M16. So if the service was going to invest in a replacement, it wanted a “leap ahead” that would, among other things, cut in half the number of times the weapon jammed – a criterion the Army has not made clear until today. None of the eight designs offered for the Individual Carbine competition met that standard, Army officials said, so the service is going to stick with the M4 indefinitely.

[AEA]

Makes me wonder if the Army Issued M4's have chrome lined barrels or not? Or if they even considered that as a factor in their tests?

[gthaustex]

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The Army has half a million M4 carbines, the lightweight version of the Vietnam-vintage M16. So if the service was going to invest in a replacement, it wanted a “leap ahead” that would, among other things, cut in half the number of times the weapon jammed – a criterion the Army has not made clear until today. None of the eight designs offered for the Individual Carbine competition met that standard, Army officials said, so the service is going to stick with the M4 indefinitely.

One would think that the criteria for selection / passing their tests should have been clear from the beginning of the program.......

[bagman45]

Sequester at work here. It's likely the Army HAD to have a specific reason to kill the trial, or would have had to pay the participants even MORE for the failed project.

[psijac]

There is some politicing we are not seeing here

Ostrowski emphasized: “The Army is not cancelling the IC competition, the Army is the position where it must conclude the IC competition.”

That may sound like a distinction without a difference. Legally, however, there’s all the different in the world, especially since there is legislative language in the House Armed Services Committee version of the annual defense bill saying “The Secretary of the Army may not cancel the individual carbine” (emphasis mine). Even though the statute, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014, is months from final passing into law, the Army doesn’t want to flout the will of Congress too directly.

[gigag04]

Shooter in the photo needs to get his/her elbow down before it gets shot off

[Purplehood]

Shooter in the photo needs to get his/her elbow down before it gets shot off

I don't get it...