My friend just sent me this link

[Spartan198]

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.

[Ace Oliveira]

At least the XM8 was just a Rifle. Unlike the XM29.

[Spartan198]

Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

At least the XM8 was just a Rifle. Unlike the XM29.

Yeah, that's true.

Maybe HK can sell the XM29 to Skynet?

[Ace Oliveira]

I wonder why most Experimental Abominations either come from the United States or the Soviet Union or Russia.

[Gunmaster45]

Other countries have common sense?

[Spartan198]

Originally Posted by Gunmaster45

Other countries have common sense?

Yeah, that's probably it.

[k9870]

I mean has any of you ever seen a bullpup version of the SKS?

like this?


http://www.rifletech.com/bullpup.htm

[k9870]

another one here

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

I wonder why most Experimental Abominations either come from the United States or the Soviet Union or Russia.

Thank the Cold War for a lot of advances and back lashes of weapon development. And in the past 100+ years, the US had made up a lot of oddities that more than likely didn't make it pass prototype stages and barely needs a mention. And the US and Russia for a long while and continuing has a lot of money floating around, and people with interesting ideas on how to reinvent the firearm. It's all about who has the most money and people with enough time on their hands. I mean has any of you ever seen a bullpup version of the SKS?