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Originally Posted by Excalibur
Yeah, I never quite understood the XM8. Was it H&Ks way of getting more G36 guns in the US? Why go all the effort to creating an entirely new body for a system they already got. They might as well just tell the US Army to switch over to G36s.
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Mostly, to save face on the loss of the XM29/OICW. That and the fact that the U.S. military tends to like stuff that they can call "all theirs" (developed for them, not somebody else).