Comments by "Scott Kenny" (@ScottKenny1978) on "The EM2 in NATO Trials, with Jonathan Ferguson" video.

  1. Museum's conservation room. Really close to a morgue, but not quite the same.
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  2. It'd probably be $5500, like the SMG fg42. Still want one?
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  3.  Craig Koehler  you know that most of the world doesn't speak English as their first language, right? I still think that the .280 is a little heavy for an intermediate cartridge, so I suspect that there would have been a lighter caliber at some point in time. But certainly not in the 1960s like the AR 15.
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  4.  @thomasstevenhebert  yeah, they're wanting something that's honestly closer to .270 Winchester... 130+gr at 3000fps(!)
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  5.  @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries  had they actually just bought the AR-18 design instead of reverse engineering it, I bet the original SA80 would have been vastly better. But instead the design got handed to a bunch of people who had never designed a firearm before and who were getting laid off as soon as the SA80 was done.
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  6.  @davecarlson1918  the .276 Pedersen was actually more powerful than the .280 British as originally designed. It's effectively 7mm-08.
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  7. Sure it can. It needs to be able to reach out to 300m to be a rifle, but be controllable in full auto like an SMG. Oh, look. That's a Kalashnikov or an M16.
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  8. It's really closer to 6.5x55 in a shorter case. Really pretty light by battle rifle standards, but well above x39 or 7.92 kurz.
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  9.  Craig Koehler  yet. They're trying to do so, but the specs for Project Overmatch make it sound like they're trying to make a .270 Winchester "assault rifle". 130+gr at 3000fps?!? WTF?
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  10. Except that the military doesn't necessarily want to kill the other guy, just make him stop fighting. In most of Europe, any wound will work. Even in much of east Asia. Crud, wounding one man takes 3 to 5 out of the fight: the wounded and however many it takes to carry him to safety! But in Africa and the middle East, you really do need to kill someone to stop them from fighting.
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  11.  @reallydontlikethem  had the EM2 won the trial, everyone in NATO would have been using it.
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  12. It's on the high end of power, being close to or above the 6.5 Arisaka in power.
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  13. Nope, that's not project overmatch. Overmatch is trying to launch a 130+gr slug at 3000+fps for some stupid reason (!).
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