New Rifle, New Calibre (?) for the UK Military - Project Grayburn SA80 Replacement

[Bo Diddley]

Kier Starmer is already on the case...
This is his latest proposal..
It already has issues in that it has tendancies to shoot it's self in the foot..

 

[alberta boy]

Just sorting the freebies, didn’t get much at bass pro as I can get it retail
Latest goat killer

Nice . Do they offer a walnut stocked model , asking for a friend .
AB

 

[Greenmist]

or , hear me out , repeal the semi auto ban and simplify everything !

agreed we civvies don't need full auto rifles but why not semi auto ? especially if this idiot government are expecting to send us to war (we not me i'm too old) surely we can either be trusted or not ?

Or be like Switzerland, and every eligible person must have an assault rifle and pistol at home! Oh wait, there might be an uprising, not that I think the majority of the population have the national pride needed to be an effective defense, mind you starmer would surrender on day one

 

[Martiniblack577]

Always fight the last war you fought and never the next war that you might have to fight? We went to war in 1914 as if we were fighting what? The Boer War? We went to war in 1939 as if we were fighting the First World War. Are we now to fight a future war as if it was the Gulf War? Or Afghanistan?

Because what they all lacked was the use of cheap helicopter type mini drones with lethal capability. So to my mind whilst 6.8mm might have benefits we must also perhaps realise that 5.56mm NATO weapons have greater magazine capacity and more controllability under automatic fire and that may be the "best" close in drone defence.

There's no use having 6.8mm if your most likely threat to you isn't a tribesman stood behind a wall five hundred yards or a man in body armour three hundred yards away away but in fact a small rapidly moving drone fifty yards away.

Shotgun trg is on the menu for Inf to help defence against drones. Makes sense really. Letting off a mag of 556 isn’t particularly effective as you really need a cone of fire to hit a flying object. Think flak vs B17’s. More effective than a single 88m shell .

 

[Rafter]

Or be like Switzerland, and every eligible person must have an assault rifle and pistol at home! Oh wait, there might be an uprising, not that I think the majority of the population have the national pride needed to be an effective defense, mind you starmer would surrender on day one

Can't use Switzerland as an example, not enough diversity there.
Homogeneous populations with shared values and history do better - who'd have thought?