Major revamp possible for M4 carbine
Otis Willie PIO The American War Library
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/11/army_M4_112109w/
{EXCERPT} Army wants new barrel, faster fire and 4 other improvements, By Matthew Cox - Staff writer Posted : Sunday Nov 22, 2009 13:20:30 EST
The Army is considering a major redesign of the M4 aimed at making the weapon shoot cleaner and longer � at high rates of fire.
As the Army awaits Defense Department approval of a competition to find a new carbine, weapons officials have identified six fixes intended to address shortcoming
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<themilitaryto...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> The Army is considering a major redesign of the M4 aimed at making the weapon >shoot cleaner and longer — at high rates of fire.
Faster its full-auto rate of fire, faster it runs out of ammo.
Oppressed peoples worldwide would be happy for Washington to adopt
such a change!
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"edi...@netpath.net" <edi...@netpath.net> wrote:
> On Nov 23, 5:34�pm, Otis Willie PIO The American War Library
><themilitaryto...@pacbell.net> wrote:
>> The Army is considering a major redesign of the M4 aimed at making
>> the weapon shoot cleaner and longer � at high rates of fire.
>
> Faster its full-auto rate of fire, faster it runs out of ammo.
> Oppressed peoples worldwide would be happy for Washington to adopt
> such a change!
Does the M4 have a "full auto" mode"? I thought all rifles currently in
use had just a "burst" mode of 3 rounds or so.
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Once met a Marine colonel who had been on a PIP for the M-16. The troopers
wanted rock and roll and the brass didn't want them wasting bullets - ergo 3
round burst. The colonel admitted though that 3 rd blows as it climbs and the
last round is always a flyer. With full auto at least you can recover and
balance the recoil as it's a steady pulse, whereas 3 round burst, especially
the way we implement it, tends to make it choppy.
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M4 is semi-auto / 3 round burst, and the M4A1 is semi-auto/full auto