>>64005451
We need something that has longer reach, more power. Something that will have the same weight as the M14 but more power then the dinky little 5.56 that is so harmless.

>>63998612
>>63998699

B-but bro, in a-afghanistan coalition troops were taking harasing fire from taliban PKM or DSHK 900 meters away in prepared ambush position. Coaltion troops could do nothing but take cover and do nothing with the tiny 556 plinker bro.

Let's just ignore that the harrasing fire was either to support another taliban squad to manouver into a better position or withdraw from a succesful close range ambush where the primary weapon was the RPG-7, everything else in that squad was to support said RPG-7.

If all the afghanistan brain rot generals actually wanted to win infantry fire fights in another afghanistan sandbox adventure they would be arguing for a light weight carl gustav, equiped with a thermal sight+ laser rangefinder firing smart time fuzed thermobaric rounds with maybe laser guidance so someone else could paint the target and the round strikes it dead on.
>Some durka is firing doing harrasing fire with a pkm 1000 meters away.
>He gets spotted
>Gets painted by a laser
>carl gustav gunner see the taliban pkm gunner glowing head behind all those rocks with the thermal sight, press one button and he get range and elevation thanks to laser rangefinder.
>fire one round
>Smacks the pkm gunner on the forehead with 1 kilo of thermobaric fuck you explosive.

There, tactical situation solved and 100% kill chance 1000 meters away even when entrenched behind big fucking rocks. Saab and Raytheon is even devloping such a round IRL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_Multipurpose_Munition