The Glory Might of the XM29.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

See that men, guys? He knows shit.

Thank you Matt for such a imformative post. Also, could you talk about those DoD contracts? I'm sure the Future Soldier bullshit will be part of it.

I like some of the elements of the Future Soldier program more than I like the program itself.

I think the adoption of the F/A-18 by the Navy to be a huge waste of money. Mostly because it was quite obviously inferior to the F-16, its competitor in the Lightweight Fighter Program (which, most people forget, was supposed to select a fighter that would be standardized in both the USAF and Navy). I also have an extremely negative attitude towards the AH-64 Apache.

[zzang1847]

There are something that i'd like to correct.


First of all, it is NOT "copy" of XM29. They pratically studied about XM29 because it's just like what they wanted, and they actually liked it pretty much, i guess....


Second of all, the name of South Korean's XM29 is XK-11. It is named after "Experimental Design(which is X is standards for), K-11 Light Support Weapon". They never thought this would be infantry standard assault rifle, but as like infantry support weapon.


Finally, they're spitting out of tons of money for this project, and they would finally start producing this item in early 2010. Whether this one is piece of crap or not, i am pretty interesting about this item.


P.S) I just figured out this piece's price is little bit more than $14,000 per one

P.S) YES...YES.... I am SOUTH KOREAN XD