Is this going to replace the M16A2 on a limited basis?  How many per squad?  I believe this OICW is the Marine's prototype, or has one already been selected for Army and Marine Infantry?  I'll start with this one question but I have a few more questions.

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Personally, if I were fighting a war I'd want a gun that's been battle tested and proven such as the M16-A2. Anybody remember how many problems the M16-A1 had. Guns are refined as they are battle tested.

brouhaha, that's why the US and the former USSR would provide arms to countries that were fighting. From a tactical standpoint why waste your troops battle testing new equipment when someone else will waste theirs for you?

Just how reliable or even functional would this be under deplorable conditions?  Is it waterproof or able to be submerged?  I'm sure the FC computer and sight would be sealed but it seems like kind of a clusterfuck.

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I wouldn't bet my life on one of them.  Let the Israelis test them out.

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It doesnt matter if it functions or not.  Even if it works it is inadequate for fighting in Afganistan. Both halves are way too short ranged, and the grenade munitions are too small to be effective unless the target is contained in a room or a bunker.  It was designed based on the experience of the 80s and 90s by people who had only fought in jungles, cities, or out the back of a APC with tanks and artillery all around to support them. It was not designed for airmobile infantry holding a mountain top with nothing but rocks for kilometers around fighting people whos favorite tactic is to move from rock to rock sniping at them.  It was not made with any care for our experience in Korea or the Russian experience in Afganistan, or even what the British encountered in the Falklands.