• remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      The .277 Fury is an interesting cartridge. Since the full power cartridge is a steel/brass hybrid, I am not quite sure it’s economical for me to reload. However, since it goes up to 80k psi, I am not sure I would even want to reload that brass.

      Still, a 135gr bullet traveling at 3k ft/s is no joke. I am super curious to see how body armor holds up.

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    9 months ago

    Jokes aside I think the point of adopting the XM7 is so our rifle is in the same caliber as the XM250. Thing is light as hell for what it is.

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      9 months ago

      True the MG is the star of the NGSW show. I could see the rifle being a dmr style role in a squad. Hits harder, reaches farther but it isn’t given to everyone.

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    9 months ago

    The reason the m4 is a smaller cartridge is that its predecessor had serious over penetration issues. Ideally the bullet will stop inside of the victim.

    The XM7 will have seriously worse performance due to over penetration and other ballistics, not to mention heavy and limited ammo. Maybe it will fare better against armor, which would be good in a hypothetical matchup with a comparable enemy, but that is unlikely to occur any time soon.

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      8 months ago

      At this point everyone has access to body armour, might as well adjust our weapons to this new assumption.

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      9 months ago

      Because Lemmy isn’t serving you content based on some convoluted marketing algorithm?

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        9 months ago

        Maybe it’s a little hard on this post but when you use sync your can filter words or user submission, community or even whole server.

      • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Hm, I was getting posts I was interested in but suddenly started getting a bunch of posts about US politics and guns. Coincidence then.

        • netwren@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          If you subscribe to those subs then your home page will be just those subs. If I go to all I get memes and politics. But I have noticed posts in “groups” and think it’s mostly bots on subs hitting specific target times for engagement.

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      8 months ago

      Lemmy [All] shows whatever it considers the highest upvoted and trending no matter the community or instance, as long as yours is federated. Switch to Lemmy [subscriptions] or Lemmy [Subs] to see communities you are apart of.