With regards to NATO standard small arms calibres, it will remain 9mm, 5.56mm, with 6.8mm gradually replacing 7.62mm. Maybe the 6.8 will replace the 7.62mm, in time. After all the 7.62mm NATO comes from similarly flawed thinking. When we've seen the cost of the new round and licensing opportunities...

FWIW the Swedish Defense Materiel Agency, FMV, has placed a contract worth approx. SEK 875 million ~£70 million with Sako, a Berretta company, for automatic carbines in caliber 5.56x45, automatic carbines in caliber 7.62x51, sniper rifles in caliber 7.62x51 and sniper rifles in caliber 8.6 x70 Lapu...

The choice is quite simple really, stick with 5.56mm or go with 6.8X51mm. Both calibres will be NATO standard. You seem very sure but I am much less convinced. What if the European NATO countries come up with their own intermediate cartridge preference? The European grouping is getting bigger and b...

The choice is quite simple really, stick with 5.56mm or go with 6.8X51mm. Both calibres will be NATO standard. You seem very sure but I am much less convinced. What if the European NATO countries come up with their own intermediate cartridge preference? The European grouping is getting bigger and b...

The only thing is with GCAP in future,I'm sure the Americans will try to exert pressure on GCAP partners in other ways to curtail sale's to countries that the US doesn't like ,so could limit GCAP sales ,ie if you sell GCAP to this country we will not supply you with parts for other programs like F3...

I wonder how hard BAE are pushing on Typhoon in Saudi Arabia, it may be more like "this (Tempest) is what you REALLY want". Or it could be a small Typhoon purchase as a bridge, interesting times The Israelis will be 'very jittery' about Saudi aquasision of an Aircraft in Tempests category...

I wonder how hard BAE are pushing on Typhoon in Saudi Arabia, it may be more like "this (Tempest) is what you REALLY want". Or it could be a small Typhoon purchase as a bridge, interesting times The Israelis will be 'very jittery' about Saudi aquasision of an Aircraft in Tempests category...

It's a simple matter of physics, it's a very small light bullet, so it lacks the mass and kinetic energy to retain accuracy over 400 yards, 300 plus starts to get iffy if you have a strong cross wind. Exactly so although not a priority, a 5.56 replacement is needed. IMO the 6.8x51 has lots of probl...

So updating the list...changes in Red since last time... This means that the order, and near certain order, books for Typhoon are fairly healthy... Ordered or due to be... - On contract in Bold 28 x Typhoon Tranche 4 to Germany under Project Quadriga 24 x Typhoon Tranche 3 to Egypt - Not ordered ye...

That prompts an interesting question, if you put the M157 optic on legacy rifles how much of an advantage does the M7 still have? Yes it's going to be a wide margin over a short barreled 556, but what about 762 (or 6.5 CM)? Would it still be worth investing in a new platform? Why would you buy an e...

That prompts an interesting question, if you put the M157 optic on legacy rifles how much of an advantage does the M7 still have? Yes it's going to be a wide margin over a short barreled 556, but what about 762 (or 6.5 CM)? Would it still be worth investing in a new platform? It's sort of Symantics...

SKB wrote: ↑28 Mar 2023, 17:16 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65102128

Perhaps he can stand as a PLO candidate?

It will be interesting to see what happens, if an order for the new Ranger units is small the army will not want to deal with the logistics of the 6.8x51 ammunition. If the US fully commits to the new round and issues it across all of their infantry units, eventually the UK will want to do the same...

The beauty of the British position is we have thousands of AR's in service ( steadily replacing the A3 at the tip of the spear) , plus a steady re-delivery of L85A3 rebuilds, so we can let Uncle Sam work the gremlins out of the system and then adopt the new calibre post 2030... This article infers ...

Normally I would agree, but this has gone the distance and its actually underway and in production, with a new rifle and MG. M14 and M60, anyone? Give it a few years. The semi-auto M14 had a very short life before being found totally unsuitable for Vietnam, the M60 lasted to the 90's before being r...

Normally I would agree, but this has gone the distance and its actually underway and in production, with a new rifle and MG. M14 and M60, anyone? Give it a few years. These are different days, the M14 was always a folly and to be fair the M60 remained GI for decades. This system has gone much furth...

What it comes down to is really simple, Uncle Sam (the founder of the feast) has decided on 6.8x 51mm and that's that.... That's the new calibre for those NATO and Western aligned countries wishing to keep in step. So now, it's time for the British Armed forces to select a design in the new calibre...

The holy grail as far as infantry sections go is to have one round for both the assault and support weapon allowing for better logistics in the field but this has its problems in terms of size of assault rife and range of support weapon However as we move back to the idea of fighting in Europe's fo...

I neither like or dislike nh90 my point is their issues are far more complicated and nuanced that you are making out. It’s not like Blackhawk doesn’t share similar issues https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-black-hawk-crashes/?amp But this wouldn’t the first time that the Army’s Black Hawk fleet h...

I could go on in that Australia used an internal system to control configuration and spares life which didn’t account for time on shelf and hence they lost configuration of there entire nh90 fleet now when that happens and you don’t know what’s on what aircraft and how much life you have they have ...

I don’t know how many time I need to repeat this NH90 is NOT an Airbus product it is a NHI product which is the same industrial stable as Merlin. Not the best source but according to wiki Airbus owns 62% of NHI Leonardo has 32% Fokker 5% Or there abouts, they bought it so it’s there problem having ...

Boeing doing well recently with sales of 96 to Poland and another 184 for US Army, Australia and Egypt but Business Insider reporting Japan has announced in their Dec 2022 "Defense Buildup Program" they will be going in the exact opposite direction and ditching their attack helicopters sa...

Boeing doing well recently with sales of 96 to Poland and another 184 for US Army, Australia and Egypt but Business Insider reporting Japan has announced in their Dec 2022 "Defense Buildup Program" they will be going in the exact opposite direction and ditching their attack helicopters sa...

Boeing doing well recently with sales of 96 to Poland and another 184 for US Army, Australia and Egypt but Business Insider reporting Japan has announced in their Dec 2022 "Defense Buildup Program" they will be going in the exact opposite direction and ditching their attack helicopters sa...

Boeing doing well recently with sales of 96 to Poland and another 184 for US Army, Australia and Egypt but Business Insider reporting Japan has announced in their Dec 2022 "Defense Buildup Program" they will be going in the exact opposite direction and ditching their attack helicopters sa...