[mp-gg] Re: Adios M-16/M-4?

[Kurt Feltenberger <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:06 PM 11/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:


>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_goodbye_m_16&cid=540&ncid=1480

Yawn.  I say again, yawn.  This latest round of hype and tripe is due to 
Militech trying to push their lubricants and the army turning them 
down.  They found several people who would support their statements and 
leaked it to ABC news earlier this week.

The current front runner to supplement the M-16 series is the XM-8, which 
exists in a non-firing display unit only at this time.  It's the rifle 
component of the living abortion known as either the OICW or XM-29.  The 
only reason it's being considered is because the OICW program, faults and 
all, has been split into three parts of the development staff want at least 
something to hit the field.  The GL portion has a string of failures, 
including in barrel detonations, and the optics and firecontrol part 
suffers from weight, power, and reliability issues.  The only part that 
consistently works was the rifle and even that's been completely redesigned 
for the XM-8.

The bottom line is that if the troops who complained, mostly REMF and 
maintenance units, had followed the specs on how to lube the weapon for the 
environment, this would be a non-issue.  Once again we throw tons of money 
at a hardware solution when the software is at fault.  Another instance of 
failure of leadership in making sure the troops we both trained properly 
and following proper procedures.

Kurt Feltenberger
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