>>64382413
Extremely mid and backwards facing. The writing was on the wall for intermediate cartridges at the end of WW2, the soviets and the rest of NATO saw that, but we threw our weight around to ensure full .30 cal stayed standard for the west. So already the whole trial is tainted by resistance to change and fighting the previous war, but then they groom the results to select the worst of the options. Even the fucking Springfield was more forward thinking, at least it had a pistol grip and in-line stock; to say nothing of the FAL or AR10. Like insisting everyone use Windows Vista, then on top of that demand they use Edge.