This is an assault rifle in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, and I marvel at it's futuristic features Only the MR-c had a legitimate reason to be cancelled.
Anyway, thanks for this intriguing article, I thought I was an expert on cancelled military tech, but this website shows me that I still have much to learn. Back to the books or webpages I go! Maybe there is a curse with GR games and these weapons? I always thought the MR-C was interesting weapon, shame it was never a reality. Thanks for reading! And if you like this article, check out my blogpost on the Knights Armament SR!
We've got the carabine version of this weapon in a few missions. Its much better then the scar and our older weaponsystems. I felt fucking unpornable with the xm8 backthrow. That was like a 9mmm handgun. The Germans makes a great military rifle and small sports cars! In idea, the XM8 would have been an excellent military weapon. But I doubt the U. Military were interested in the XM8 project and decided to wait until a future product came along. Well, I finally got my own xm8 clone.
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Will you please drop me a e-mail? This, not the only near-future MSF work that has mined the US Army canceled M16 replacement, and this got me to thinking never a good thing , why do so many near-future MSF works feature this weapon? So, I decided to write a blogpost and gather the opinion of anyone that wishes to comment below. Much like the original AR15 concept, the XM8 carbine was going to be base for several other weapons, everything from a PDW to a light machine gun, with a few changing of pieces, some call this the "Lego" approach to firearms.
November of saw thirty prototype XM8 delivered to the US Army for testing, which opened up a heated political debate. Pressure on the Hill and the Pentagon was coming from all sides, especially from Colt, who wanted to keep their contract. That Colt put pressure on the government to keep the gun that American soldiers used to be made by an American company, of course, the XM8 would have been made in a plant in Georgia. It is sad really, firearm companies and the people in power do not seem to remember that the assault rifle is the best friend of every soldier that puts their ass in the grass, and that system should be not just good, but great.
One of the best reasons that I've read was that the XM8 was not a giant leap forward over the Colt M4 for the price tag. All in one optic that was Meah at everything it does.
G36 ergonomics. Rangers breaking the stocks. Melting under sustained fire. Edit to add. It feels like a made in China airsoft gun. Quoted: Heat issues with the plastic which in fairness could have been worked out Non-standard accessory mounting system Non compatible magazines Too short of a barrel All of those issues could have been worked out.
Most of them quite easily. How many decades did we spend trying to get the Osprey to not kill it's passengers?
But what advantages did it have over the M16 family? None that I can see. Maybe it could have been slightly better than the M16 in some way on an individual level. But it would have given a unit equipped with these rifles a zero percent increase in combat effectiveness. So the Army would have to buy new rifles and new parts.
They would have to retrain all of their armorers. They would have to retrain all of their troops. They would have to put up with all of the teething problems new weapons always have. All of the above, plus the Army had a legal obligation to give preference to US based manufacturers, like Colt's Mfg.
Because it sucked? Quoted: Quoted: Heat issues with the plastic which in fairness could have been worked out Non-standard accessory mounting system Non compatible magazines Too short of a barrel All of those issues could have been worked out.
Did HK ever fix the melting issue with the G36? Other than being "pretty cool", what does it offer that would justify the costs of developing a new weapon system, the costs of replacing the existing stocks of M4s and M16s, the existing stocks of spare parts for M4s and M16s, the costs of training soldiers to shoot and maintain them, the costs of training armorers to work on them The M4 and M16, in one form or another, will be the primary issued weapons of the United States military until they are eventually replaced by something along the lines of "phased plasma rifles in teh 40 mega watt range.
Because they suck. Most other militaries that have adopted the G36 or derivatives is getting rid of them to one degree or another.
They are just unsuited to military service - heat issues, durability, longevity, accuracy problems, etc etc. But yeah, its like a pocket EOTech :P. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Heat issues with the plastic which in fairness could have been worked out Non-standard accessory mounting system Non compatible magazines Too short of a barrel All of those issues could have been worked out.
Germany and Spain seem pleased with it. I'm going to have to go out on a limb here, but I strongly suspect it wasn't adopted because it didn't offer any significant advantage over the current rifle.
We have a highly adaptive, highly effective, and fairly reliable system. The xm8 had marginal gains, substantial transitional cost, and potential harder to estimate teething problems.
That said, mho is that it was part of the object oriented weapons system. I suspect that the system's failure did not help the xm8 one bit. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Heat issues with the plastic which in fairness could have been worked out Non-standard accessory mounting system Non compatible magazines Too short of a barrel All of those issues could have been worked out.
What is up with you liking foreign made rifles over our very own U. I figured you'd hate the XM-8 on sheer principle, not to mention it's lack of advantage. If a platoon out in the field needed a ranged weapon, the XM8 could be retooled accordingly by simply exchanging the barrel for a longer one, adding a more powerful scope, and a collapsible bipod.
Should the situation and scenario call for something with more sustained rates of fire, the XM8 could even be turned into a light machine gun with a rate of fire between to rounds per minute. It was also cheaper to produce than the M4 carbine — the rifle it was designed to supplant.
In fact, in the latter stages of the XM8 program, even the Marine Corps demonstrated an interest in testing and potentially buying the new rifle. Should the Department of Defense have picked it up, the gun would have been produced entirely in Georgia, in cooperation with other brand-name defense contractors.
In , however, the program was shelved and quickly canceled. According to retired Army General Jack Keane, a huge proponent for replacing the M4, the XM8 program fell victim to the layers of bureaucracy that typically develop in military procurement schemes. As it turns out, the original batteries for the weapon lost their charge too quickly and needed to be replaced. Unfortunately, the new batteries added weight to the rifle — the exact opposite of what the Army wanted.
The solution there was to also replace the handguard, adding even more weight. At the same time, unit production costs began to balloon as a result of the fixes created to refine the weapon.
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