Okay, I'm splitting this off from the thread about my sons Christmas present because of this post by hopkins. What do you feel would be a better standard issue caliber for our armed forces? To me the 5.56 round is a pretty good choice in that it balances out weight, ballistics, magazine capacity and leathiality pretty well. What are your thoughts?
Well since the M-16 was adopted in 1964 it is what most people already would call an antique. As such the .223 should be replaced with a more powerful round. It is possible to set up the existing platform to accept several more effective rounds. If you were to look at the select forces of our military, by choice they use more powerful rounds to accomplish their missions. But then I am probably preaching to the choir, as they say.