The Akasha Colony wrote:Miku the Based wrote:Is 6.5 creedmoor the future of firearms or are we still going to be using a cartridge made back in the '60s and '70s? How long do you think until it becomes widespread?
Seeing as how the US Army has never shown any interest in 6.5 Creedmoor (or any of the other assorted "next generation" commercial rounds like 6.5 Grendel and 6.8 SPC) as a general purpose round in favor of its own designs (currently the 6.8 designs for NGSW), it seems unlikely at best that it's suddenly going to backtrack on that. And every other NATO power is taking the path of least resistance and basically just buying HK416 chambered in bog standard 5.56, without any interest in caliber changes.
I see, so is there a chance for the grendel or the 6.8? Never heard of the 6.8, or just rarely. Would a major conflict have to occur for a reassesment in calibers? It seems like development have stalled when in just 40 some years we went from 30-06 to 308 to 556 then nothing afterwards.