5.56

>>33301161
When hand held rail guns that shoot 2mm come out.

>>33301161
When it stops being cheap, effective and fun.

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>>33301161
When OP stops sucking dick.

>No end in sight

>>33301161
Well certainly not for the next 20 to 30 years.

>>33301161
Never. Every gun store stocks a ratio of 20:1 ARs to slavshit nowadays. Whatever happened to the variety of the pre-AWB era?

>>33301396
mallninjas and "le scaring le gubberment"

>>33301161
>>33301161
>July 4, 2033 AD Weyland creates new 5.56 millimeter round made of metals mined from the circumstellar habitable zone planets orbiting within Gliese 581 capable of traveling at max velocity in any atmosphere at any range.

I want this.

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why don't they make 5.56 with hollow cavities like the 5.45x39? That way wouldn't the bullet be not dependent on its velocity?

>>33304035
A better question would be why do people insist on purposefully crippling the round by going to shorter barrel lengths on infantry rifles for literally no reason and use a bullet that has been proven to be complete ass that just icepicks through everything.

>>33304372
because convenience trumps all and short guns are less annoying

Military cartridges never die. *

*:RIP 6mm Lee Navy, .30-40 Krag

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It is not a meme round... in short: It has a disproportionate recoil to damage. Which led to the DOD and NATO as a whole to adopt and why the Soviets and such adopted the 5.45 round.

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>>33301161

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>>33301161
When we start shooting at people who actually wear body armor.

smol rounds are great for perforating civilians which is why every 1st world country switched over, We're not going up against a well equipped military anytime soon.

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>>33304372
>Look at me, I'm a retard who has no idea that heavier grains exist and thinks it's still 1965.

>>33301167
Probably this tbqh

>>33301161
Sooner than you'd think, the DoD just begun trials investigating the viability of .22LR as a replacement.

>>33305103
>Thinks that since they are both the same caliber they are basically the same round

Go shoot a 22 lr at 200 yards and tell me how that works out for you.

>>33304035
They do and it's called MK262.

>>33304424
Why did they die?

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>>33301161
>When will this meme round die?
gr8 b8 m8

>>33304372
>purposefully crippling the round by going to shorter barrel lengths
Match-grade 16" ARs can be combat effective out to 800 yards.

5.56 isn't crippled by shorter barrels.

>>33304536
M855 shreds body armor tho

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>>33305809
top fucking kek

>>33301161
when it gets shot with 308

>>33301396
AR-type rifles are the Model T of the current firearm market. Ubiquitous, defining, and while the most prominent are hardly the only guns readily available.

>>33301161
When the AR-15 meme dies.

>>33305794
Their service rifle was dropped.
With no survivors.

>>33305807
pretty sure the terminal ballistics of 5.56 out of 14" is the same as 9mm terminal ballistics or very close.
Couldn't find where I saw it but I've seen the data.

>>33307246
>terminal ballistics of 5.56 out of 14" is the same as 9mm terminal ballistics or very close
not even close

>>33307246
And then 5.56 keeps that velocity out to 300 yards instead of dumping it within 50 yards.

Hopefully soon. The AR platform was a fucking mistake.

>>33307612
t. dianne feinstein

>>33307246
literally not even close, M855 16" to 14.5" is a 5% drop in velocity

>>33307296
At what barrel length though?
>>33307826
Muzzle velocity isn't terminal velocity.

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>>33304035
you know that m193 and m855 aren't the only 5.56 rounds, right?

>>33301161
Never

Two centuries later and 5.56 will still be standard issue