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Great news for us .270 users as 6.8mm is 270 caliber, yes the cartridge will be different but bullet size is .270. We all know how the 270 WIN drops deer & elk sized game & now it will win wars for us also. Like old Cactus Jack said, it's a GREAT caliber!!
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LOL, the notion that .270 is a great caliber because it drops deer and elk is spurious at best. Lots of calibers are capable of dropping deer and elk just just fine. It really isn't the caliber so much as the cartridge/bullet combo and how well the shooter can put the shot into the right anatomy. All calibers are great calibers as much as they aren't.
The argument might be more salient if the military was after deer and elk, but they aren't.
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270 is .274 and its a tweener. Not that it does not do fine, but a 130/150 grain 30-06 would do the same thing and more so with a VLD design.
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LOL, again, every caliber is a 'tweener' except the very largest and the very smallest.
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Late last year, they were talking about a 6.8 caliber miracle rifle that could shoot farther than guns today, penetrate any body armor today or that is expected to be developed in the next quarter century (how do you test for that?), in an 'impressive gun' that will withstand the rigors of weather, use, soldier abuse, etc.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...-lot-deadlier/
Of course, it will have superduper electro-optics, be suppressed, etc.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...ons-prototypes
So everything is going to be new and different and they want to field this very quickly as they are looking for "rapid development."
There are a lot of corners that are going to get cut.