Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "THE MILITARY CHOOSES ITS NEW SERVICE RIFLE" video.

  1. 6.8 SPC is a joke. This is different.
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  2.  @thekamotodragon  Because in the military they're using totally beat to sh!t. It's extremely common for people to hate the Beretta 92 in the military, then try a fresh one after they discharge and loving it.
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  3. I only got a 5.56 because they don't make a 5.57
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  4. SA is a company that bought the name Springfield from the historical armorer, which rubs people the wrong way as it seems a way to make people think they're buying from a brand with pedigree. The XD is a rebranded HS2000, a Croatian pistol. They also became known for trying to strike a deal with antigunners. If you like the XD it's fine, but SA is the butt of the jokes. Like Tapco, the Century Arms Alcoholic Monkeys, etc.
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  5. I praise the hell out of PSR but he isn't a pioneer, he provides a spotlight for others' designs. The pioneers are Cody Wilson, Imura, "Patrick", derwood, Jeff Rodriguez, Ivan and St. Jstark. PSR doesn't tread new ground. But he lays the beats.
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  6. Yes and they had to redesign the internals.
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  7. Shell Shock NAS3 was a "complicated" casing and they sold the cases cheaper than brass, at least when they came out.
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  8. It's not for no reason. The G36 reached the planned end of life. It was a stopgap to arm Germany after reunification with the DDR.
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  9. You do realize that the Marines simply adopted the M27 to replace the M16s/M4s, right?
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  10. 6.8 SPC is a dead end because it's constrained by the 5.56 OAL. Even with the Six8 which had the magwell designed for 6.8, it was made to be issued with the 90gr ATK/Federal ammo. Which had a rifle Gold Dot bullet. Light for caliber hollowpoints are not really the infantry friendly rounds.
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  11.  @erik100mark  It also doesn't need to be a heavy bullet with a rainbow trajectory. A 110-125gr bullet is roughly twice the weight of a 62gr meaning that infantry is carrying less rounds. Meanwhile the Russians switched from 7.62x39 to 5.45x39 because soldiers' hit probability increased. Less rounds and more misses? Dodgy as hell. The requirements involved armor penetration so it couldn't fit the 5.56 magwell.
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  12. Not the same in any way.
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  13.  @MrBalrogos  6.5 Creemoor does around 2600 with a 142gr out of a 20 inch barrel. The 6.8 proposed by SIG does 2950 with a 140gr from a 16" barrel.
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  14.  @Gamerguy826  the G36 is fine, Germany just asked for a pencil barrel for weight reason and realized that heat causes the barrel harmonics to change as internal stresses are released.
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  15. Nah they need that fat steel core to put the smackdown on a ceramic plate even at short distances. They paid for the whole 80k psi, they'll use the whole 80k psi.
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  16. The cartridge is the best part, though.
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  17. I wouldn't be surprised in the case is actually simpler to manufacture. Drawing the full length of a cartridge to have a thick case head and a thin case wall requires multiple stages in a press, with annealing and washing cycles to deal with the work hardening of the material. Now you start with a thin brass tube, press it into a steel cup, punch an aluminum washer to fix everything in place.
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  18. Because it sucks? Heavier than 5.56, worse trajectory.
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  19.  @devildog1989  A pill flying at 2950 doesn't have a similar trajectory to a pill flying at 2550. Kinetic energy is inherently a misleading metric. 7.63x39 is superior to 5.45x39 in that aspect. However, soldiers can carry more 5.45 and they hit more than with 5.45. The enemy won't pull out a calculator and check how much energy they got hit with. The only difference is that they have a higher chance of not getting hit if you're using 7.62. It's not just "literally" swapping parts. That's what you do to a rifle at home. In the military? That's not happening. The logistical troubles with conversion are not worth it. What happens is, the oldest rifles are retired and the ones who still have life in them are either put into storage or given to the National Guard/other countries as foreign aid. They're not going to rebarrel rifles that are only going to last another year in service.
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  20.  @devildog1989  The prices drop with mass manufacture. The 6.8 SPCII has existed for 20 years, and it sucked for all of them. If you're hunting with hollowpoints it's actually great, but as a military caliber it was evaluated by SOCOM and dropped. There's no such thing as bolt and barrel swaps. Unfortunately I don't remember when, must have been in a Q&A, but Ian McCollum has delivered one of the best explanations about how conversions can have almost everything go wrong. You won't save billions. First of all, it's a worse cartridge than 5.56. Second, it's going to go wrong. Even the M21 program was a failure. The Mk14 EBR was another shitshow. This obsession with "saving money" by trying to polish turds has not saved any money at all. Gold Dot is by Speer. Either way, the 77gr SMK on Mk262 has a G7 = .185 if you want to chase BCs, you won't beat that with a 90gr 6.8. The issue with the BC argument is that high BC bullets for 6.8 are naturally heavier or too long to fit the AR magazine format. Heavy bullets is going 7.62x39 after trying 5.45 - experience tells us it's a mistake and a step backwards. You gain BC, but you lose in velocity which means it's still arcing more than 5.56. You could do a light for caliber load, but that's to increase short range performance without gaining 400+ yard performance. Okay, M855A1 already did that. 6.8 SPC is completely irrelevant in terms of a military load, which is why official adoption only came from the DEA and gate guards in Middle Eastern oil states. If you want to shoot a guy driving a VBIED before he can get close to an oil sheik, a 6.8 hollow point does the trick.
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  21. Several countries have abandoned bullpups. It was forward thinking in the 1970s.
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  22. Wait, which units have the USP?
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  23.  @BakeNastie  I literally never heard of that. Not only most pictures show heavy use of Glocks since the 2010s by the units that are allowed to choose, the Marines are known for having insisted on the Colt M45 debacle.
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  24. You do not eliminate recoil. The magnetism repelling the projectile also repells the electromagnets.
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  25. As others have mentioned it will take a while to replace most 5.56 weapons in inventory, but other than that reducing demand for 5.56 will not make the supply flood the market, it will follow the demand.
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  26. The Glock fit the modularity requirements.
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  27. X is experimental, M is for model. Same convention was used in the XM8. Also, this is 6.8.
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  28. ShellShock NAS3 cases use a much weaker joint, and a youtuber tested their 9mm cases to survive 10 reloads 15% above the +P pressure. It failed at the 11th shot, not from the joint breaking but the case wall failing near the case head, like in one piece brass cases. It's much easier for the brass to split than the head to separate.
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