When did that become an issue round?"
USSOCOM (US Special Operations COMmand) has selected it for it's Precision Intermediate Caliber (PIC). It may well go on to supplant the 5.56, since a major motivation for the PIC is to penetrate first-tier body armor.
Pardon me for asking a stupid question, but I was taught, “the only stupid question is the one you don’t ask.”
Why the reinvention of cartridges? Anymore, it seems rifle buffs neck down and blow out the shoulder of some existing cartridge, then say they can load it with anything from H4831 to Cream of Wheat soaked in nitroglycerin and have magic bullets emerge from the barrel.
Clearly, I’ve missed something. And once again, please pardon me for asking, but I figured if anyone had some answers, it would be FReepers.
Way cool!