simonrichter
New member
Hi Folks,
since news about the NGSW project are scarce and more or less reiterate the same well-known facts over and over again, maybe someone here wants to share some thoughts... The most ambitious of the three finalists appears to be the Textron entry with the Cased Telescoped concept. While the idea is clise to being hyped in some blogs and forums, there are still some issues I see there that have never been addressed:
1.) System complexity: Isn't a lifting chamber system much more complicate and thus potentially prone to malfunction?
2.) Rate of fire: I just can't imagine that the complicate process can achieve the same reloading speed the more conservative systems can achieve...
3.) Capacity: While the weight savings are significant, the rounds appear to be much fatter, so I doubt a mag of equal size would have the same capacity as with standard ammo.
4.) Reloading: Not an issue fir the military, I reckon, but wouldn't that be a big obstacle for civil adoption?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts
since news about the NGSW project are scarce and more or less reiterate the same well-known facts over and over again, maybe someone here wants to share some thoughts... The most ambitious of the three finalists appears to be the Textron entry with the Cased Telescoped concept. While the idea is clise to being hyped in some blogs and forums, there are still some issues I see there that have never been addressed:
1.) System complexity: Isn't a lifting chamber system much more complicate and thus potentially prone to malfunction?
2.) Rate of fire: I just can't imagine that the complicate process can achieve the same reloading speed the more conservative systems can achieve...
3.) Capacity: While the weight savings are significant, the rounds appear to be much fatter, so I doubt a mag of equal size would have the same capacity as with standard ammo.
4.) Reloading: Not an issue fir the military, I reckon, but wouldn't that be a big obstacle for civil adoption?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts