>>64136015
The entire NGSW program was borne out of gun industry people during the height of Afghanistan fighting cherrypicking and twisting data to manufacture a crisis about the US military being outranged by the enemy. You can tell the NGSW is a cashgrab by watching how the drumbeat for it never stopped even when the underlying justification was quietly changed- it started with screeching that US troops need longer range, then when Afghanistan started going cold it switched to screeching about enemy body armor without missing a beat.