>>64499700
Fucking hell. I'm so excited for PGS, but there's a 95% chance it's going to be raped like so many other promising programs. Fuck the Army.
>>64500212
Short magazines are better for PGS in most situations.
>less bulky, so it doesn't snag and you can go prone
>less weight on the weapon
>allows for more ammo variety, and easier to change ammo types
PGS isn't for suppression, it's very much shoot-to-kill. Doctrinally, think of it like a LAW/RPG-7/AT4 shrunken down for magazine depth and given a counter-defilade fuze to make the smaller warhead useful. The magazine is really only there for follow-up shots.

>Let's build a million of them that looks like an AR-15 instead
The Barrett/MARS SRSS will look very different for its actual deployment.