Real SUIT or repro?

If 6.5 is not better than 7.62 and neither is 6.8, then we can all rest easy knowing that we don't have to change anything. We can just break out the SLR's and crack on

The US trials the 6.5CM vs 7.62 showed it doubling the hit probability at 1000 metres, 33% increase in effective range, 30% increase in energy on target, 40% decrease in wind effect on bullet and decreased recoil, you might not call that a real advantage but i would call that a major advance over t...

The issue is that Creedmoor was trialled and found not to offer a real advantage over 7.62 x 51mm, as in it can be defeated by modern body armour. USSOCOM have adopted it for their Precision Rifle, RM's have adopted it for the L129, I would think that their decisions took into account modern body a...

Yes I was, sorry I should have been more clear... In a previous post you said 2030, that's a little over 6 years away. You implied that we should just go with the 6.8, an unproven, experimental round.

Could you expand on your second point, as I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

lol... You want to change to 6.8 but not 6.5???

The Royal Marines have adopted not only another new rifle, but a new calibre as well, 6.5 Creedmoor. https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2023/09/21/u-k-royal-marines-adopt-6-5cm-lmt-l129a2-ft-huxwrx-leupold/ Absolutely bonkers decision unless they're adopting it for a LMG too. I hope so... :P

Would be cool if true....

https://x.com/clark_aviation/status/170 ... 76518?s=20

SW1 wrote: ↑18 Sep 2023, 12:39 For anyone in South Carolina the marines are looking for an f35 one careful owner a few dents

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66841194

What is it with Marines losing stuff at the moment?

Curious, how do you think its to big to fail? Lockheed were smart with F-35, they had part's built in so many states that no senator would be brave enough to kill it. An experimental bullet doesn't have that.

mrclark303 wrote: ↑12 Sep 2023, 16:29 Let Uncle Sam spent the development money and do maturity tweaking over the next 5/10 years, other firearms manufacturers will also develop new rifles for the calibre and we can pick and choose 'way down' the road.....

Or not, because its probably sidelined

As I said before make the NMH program 66 airframes split 20 to the RAF and 30 to the Army with 12 in a joint OCU and 4 held for deep maintenance next move 26 Wildcats to the Navy with 18 feed into service and 8 held for deep maintenance / upgrade with the remaining 8 sold all 3 services get what th...

Was thinking (dangerous I know)... Does anybody remember the AWD MTL 33 Multidrive artic from the late 80's / early 90's? It was a four wheeler tractor unit with a 4 wheel trailer, the trailer wheels where drive by a prop shaft from the tractor unit, making it all wheel drive. If Supacat does an ele...

I'm assuming they are referring to the fancy optic setup... The rifle is obviously no more 'lethal' than the current L85A3, but it's lighter, simpler and obviously has all the benefits of the AR platform, all wrapped up in the ultimate gas impingement variation. The Optic and the suppressor Knights...

except Merlins and Chinooks aren't Army...

More lethal???

Looks like Johnny Number 5 to me

X-32 was a Harrier style concept, using 2 mid mounted nozzles (the standard rear exhaust closed for STOVL flight).

Not sure where 24 came from, but this is from the Leonardo thread... If these are successfully concluded, the volumes under discussion would lead to a “double-digit backlog” for the Wildcat, said Clarke, speaking at an event in Yeovil on 22 August A Wildcat sized Naval asset was never going to set t...

I wonder if any of the top brass would have the balls to stand up and say that the plane was lost, (basically) because of the repercussions of the forced "gap"?

Nah, silly me... They'll just wait for retirement first.

If they can do a full evaluation, could be interesting...

They have a lot of interesting videos (including VLOG's), only watched a few so far, but I'm working my way through them

https://www.youtube.com/@HillHelicopters/videos

It's India, if you haven't been accused of corruption, then you're doing something wrong.

Give it a couple of years and Safran's name will be dirt too.

Saw this last night, don't think it's been posted before...