August 26, 2019, 08:38 PM
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“Right now, the feedback looks like we are going to a 6.8 mm round,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said recently.
The service has a list of its top six modernization priorities and “soldier lethality” is one of the items. The most high-profile program in that category is the squad automatic rifle. Army Secretary Mark Esper at the Association of the United States Army annual conference — while promising the service is speeding up the way it does acquisition — singled out the program as one that would see prototypes in the near future.
“The bottom line is that we are committed to a new rifle,” Milley told reporters.
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He added: “We don’t want to speak too much about its technical capabilities because our adversaries watch these things very closely.”
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https://www.nationaldefensemagazine....-caliber-round
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