XM556 Microgun

[David]

Sustained fire for one minute at the lowest rpm they state would be about 50 pounds of ammo.

Sustained first for the current saw is a little over 20 pounds.


I'd be very surprised if this thing ever sees squad use and not mounted use.

I'll be surprised if it's used by anything other than dealers.

[Craizie]

I'll be surprised if it's used by anything other than dealers.

It looks like it would be hard as fuck to control the fire direction with that thing.

Although if I heard that thing going off I'd fucking duck, so I suppose it has a purpose.

[CexMashean]

It looks like it would be hard as fuck to control the fire direction with that thing.

You don't control the direction of fire with that thing.
You control the area of engagement.

[Craizie]

You don't control the direction of fire with that thing.
You control the area of engagement.

So fuck that general area instead of fuck this place inparticular?

[CexMashean]

So fuck that general area instead of fuck this place inparticular?

[KBScobravert]

Sustained fire for one minute at the lowest rpm they state would be about 50 pounds of ammo.

Sustained first for the current saw is a little over 20 pounds.


I'd be very surprised if this thing ever sees squad use and not mounted use.

Back on 2009'ish, an Army SPC built the first prototype backpack and feed tray for a SAW in Paktika provence Afghanistan and it was put to use in the field. There was an article in Stars and Stripes about how a grunt with spare parts made more headway than DARPA.

He used an ALICE pack frame and ammo cans welded together and feed tray links system from a CROW system iirc.

[David]

Back on 2009'ish, an Army SPC built the first prototype backpack and feed tray for a SAW in Paktika provence Afghanistan and it was put to use in the field. There was an article in Stars and Stripes about how a grunt with spare parts made more headway than DARPA.

He used an ALICE pack frame and ammo cans welded together and feed tray links system from a CROW system iirc.

GIs have been doing it for years. In Vietnam you had MACV SOG and seal team 60 gunners mounting helo ammo cans to light weight rucksacks and then using the feed chutes.

[Gtracer]

lol