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As we see MLOK take over, Geissele, BCM, and DD MLOK on LE and military rifles, will the RIS II and quad rails drop in sales?
Will the military eventually have more MLOK than quad rail (KAC/DD)??
Does DD already sell more MLOK (V7s) to LE and Civ than they do quad rail to .mil??
Will the RIS II be like the KAC RAS rail system (legacy type builds?)
The the future hold?
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I doubt it. As far as I know, DD is still under contract with SOCOM to deliver RIS II rails for the foreseeable future. Also, I thought that the Army was planning to start issuing RIS II rails to the airborne units?
Also, when I read Jeff Gurwitch's last entry in the "Competition to Combat Crossover" series (Part 4,
here), one of the things that struck me is that pretty much every M4A1 and Mark 18 pictured in the article is fitted with the issue RIS II (non-FSP). Compare that to his earlier articles in which most of the rifles pictured were fitted with after-market modular rails (Troy Alpha series, mostly) that his teammates had purchased themselves. I find that trend interesting - although he doesn't really address it, I wonder if the Group guys discovered in the field that those commercial slick rails they used to run were not able to withstand the same abuse as their issued RIS II forearms? The fact that the Geissele MK16 apparently doesn't hold zero when dropped repeatedly might be the reason USASOC is holding off on issuing the URG-I (still not being widely used, last I've heard).
I own a DD M4A1 fitted with the RIS II non-FSP, and I like how sturdy it feels compared to most of the MLOK rails I've tried out, though I did just order a BCM upper with an MCMR handguard.