[DUMBGRUNT]

What happens when you drag your alphabet soup in to the blue? It falls in the mud, so you rinse it off in a creek, neglect it some more, each day for a long time. Will it work?
When the batteries run down, what do you have beyond that lovely bayonet?
The display and CPU will suck lots of juice.
What is the warm up time from off to operational, powersave to operational?
What is the battery life? Want to bet your life on low bidder batteries?
How many types of ammunition, batteries and spares are needed to maintain a line unit?

Here is my answer! Well it is something to see.
http://toz.vpk.ru/eng/apslis1.htm

[VaBthang4]

"When the batteries run down, what do you have beyond that lovely bayonet?"

A 5.56 mm rifle. The same thing they have now.

"What is the warm up time...What is the battery life... Want to bet your life on low bidder batteries...How many types of..."

Probably the same questions asked when the military introduced NVGs or Thermal sights on their man portable anti-armour weapons.

I'm not sold on the system yet but I am not a naysayer either. I know this...

If while serving in the Marines, I was given the choice between a functioning rifle that fires 10/20mm grenades and a rifle that fires 30/5.56 mm rounds...

I'dve taken the former.

I humped around with an M-60 Echo 3 for a year and change...so if the complaint from the "Army" soldiers is that the OICW is too heavy....my succinct response is "work out".