>>64364380
>"acktually"
Mil /police procurement is more of a joke in 21st century than it ever has been (never mind the bureaucracies/govs themselves, just look a the contractors' products)
the U.S. Army being prime example today
also as everyone knows the original NATO PDW 1990 program was kind of a joke
It's all a joke really. For mil and police service the smaller caliber 5.7 / 4.6 / and pistol rounds ought and can still be used for many tasks but due to post-1980s logistics, economy-of-scale and widespread adoption of AR-15 pattern rifles/carbines/'short barrels' the services have started by default and for cost economy simplicity and "dumb enough for all" just adopting 5.56-everything as standard issue.
Why even have these thread topics/discussions if every single "rifle" in the world is going to be some variant-or-other of AR-5.56? Because that's all which will ever exist from this point forward in time, correct? Just stop discussing anything at all, everything is an AR in .223