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Saturday, August 3, 2013

More environmental madness applied to the Army.

Army plans on switching to the leadless M80A1 7.62x51mm in 2014, after having gone “green” with the 5.56mm M855A1 EPR (Enhanced Performance Round) which they switch to from the M855 in 2010.

Getting the lead out, literally: US Army plans switch to ‘green’ bullets.

Of course in addition to its dubious "increase in lethality" (which many triggerpullers insist is actually a decrease in lethality) this green round is much more expensive to produce, thereby taxing an Army budget already experiencing cuts. Makes me proud I'm a lead scrounger/caster/reloader. Screw the green weenies.

5 comments:

Paul X said...: Taxpayer dollars are the easiest dollars to spend - except for dollars made from thin air of course.; August 3, 2013 at 10:01 AM
Anonymous said...: When folks need killing, might as well be environmentally friendly about it.; August 3, 2013 at 1:56 PM
SWIFT said...: Surely the greenies and lefties are not in the majority in this country. How can they wield such over reaching power? What I really want to see is an environmentally friendly willy pete mortar round and artillery shell.; August 3, 2013 at 5:57 PM
Anonymous said...: Does it go "bang" when it's supposed to?

Does it go where it's supposed to?

Does it take out the target when it get's there?

All else is irrelevant!; August 4, 2013 at 9:26 AM
JMB1776 said...: No, other things are relevent. Despite what the infantry will tell you, there's more to a war than throwing bullets downrange. If these even cost one cent more per round than the current round, that's an additional $15,000,000,000 per year that the Army has to come up with. That's not including how much the round has cost to go through testing and engineering, nor the cost of updating training materials and production machinery. The blow isn't in lethality, it's in logistics, and it pisses me off that this choices are being made by people that have no interest in military capabilities and no skin in the game.; August 4, 2013 at 7:03 PM

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