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Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

And what about the Royal fuck ups that were the Airburst Rifles?
http://world.guns.ru/assault/as40-e.htm

Man, were those a waste of billions of dollars. It's reasons like that that I say the military needs to start looking at currently existing platforms if they want to replace the M16/M4 instead of wasting billions on crackpot dead-end schemes like the XM29 and XM8.

Thing about that is, like someone said previously on this forum somewhere, there's really nothing in existence that offers enough of an improvement to warrant the scrapping of millions of up-to-spec M16s and M4s. And the fact that we're involved in two wars just complicates things. Iraq aside, there's no telling how long we'll be in Afghanistan.