{"id":190786,"date":"2009-10-25T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/25\/army-looking-for-compact-weapon-for-tankers-etc\/"},"modified":"2009-10-25T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T01:07:00","slug":"army-looking-for-compact-weapon-for-tankers-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/25\/army-looking-for-compact-weapon-for-tankers-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Looking for Compact Weapon for Tankers Etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the US Army is looking for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/005066.html\">subcompact personal weapon system for people like tankers and truck drivers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as how this is a niche weapon, there are basically two cartridges taht make sense, 5.56 NATO, and 9mm parabellum (used in the Baretta pistol).<\/p>\n<p>I would recommend the former, because if you are carrying more than a 50-100 or so, you have less weight, and even out of a short barrel, you have longer range.<\/p>\n<p>I think that a Bullpup makes sense, because you start getting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/armys-subcompact-rifle-search-in-doubt.html\">absurdly short barrel lengths for the weapon<\/a> (&lt;10 in).<\/p>\n<p>So, you have existing weapons like the MTAR-21 Tavor, the AUG carbine,  etc,<\/p>\n<p>If you want to go to a different round, then something like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FN_P90\">FN P90<\/a>, with its 5.7x 28mm cartridge (as compared to the 5.56x45mm NATO) makes more sense than a 9mm round.<\/p>\n<p>Note that all the Bullpups have integral optical sites, which for someone with little experience shooting a personal in a combat situation is a real advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally one of the arguments against a Bullpup, that slinging a grenade launcher under the barrel become problematic, is not an issue here.<\/p>\n<p>If the army is serious, they would buy something off the shelf, but I expect that there will be instead some sort of new weapon developed, so that some General can get a cushy job on retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the US Army is looking for a subcompact personal weapon system for people like tankers and truck drivers. Seeing as how this is a niche weapon, there are basically two cartridges taht make sense, 5.56 NATO, and 9mm parabellum (used in the Baretta pistol). I would recommend the former, because if you &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}