- Reaction score
- 20,671
- Points
- 1,260
Further to my annoyance. If one looks at the timeline - the first 40 guns aren’t even delivered to the Army till late 2023
There currently isn’t any 6.8 BSA ammo in any quantity. Government Mann test barrel fixture firing found that none of the barrel lasted over 1,000 rds in initial testing - this is a bolt action fixture, so no automatic or high rate semi-automatic firing.
So basically in the next year, Sig needs to be able to design an ammunition that meets the Performance Spec for the Army, AND come up with a barrel that will be able to handle the PSpec ammo, and not just the commercial .277 Fury (commercial ammo is about 2/3 of the pressure of the original submission concept ammo).
This to me smells of an R&D program — not an acquisition program, and one has to wonder why the Army would award a contract based on basically vaporware…
There currently isn’t any 6.8 BSA ammo in any quantity. Government Mann test barrel fixture firing found that none of the barrel lasted over 1,000 rds in initial testing - this is a bolt action fixture, so no automatic or high rate semi-automatic firing.
So basically in the next year, Sig needs to be able to design an ammunition that meets the Performance Spec for the Army, AND come up with a barrel that will be able to handle the PSpec ammo, and not just the commercial .277 Fury (commercial ammo is about 2/3 of the pressure of the original submission concept ammo).
This to me smells of an R&D program — not an acquisition program, and one has to wonder why the Army would award a contract based on basically vaporware…