There's not a ton written about this that I can find, but cracks are appearing in the US military's plan to replace the M4 with a heavier battle rifle designed to defeat body armor. Sig Sauer, which also holds contracts for the current generation pistol and LMG, won a contract last year to also provide the US military with a new rifle. This rifle is to be called the XM7. The civilian equivalent is the Sig Spear. Calling this thing an assault rifle is a bit of a stretch, as it is very heavy and uses heavy ammunition. It turns out that the rifle is failing to penetrate modern body armor without the use of tungsten bullets. Also its reliability is questionable.
Even almost named the same
Yeah it's the XM5 or XM7 now lol. And it's just as bad, might be even worse this time because they re engineered the ammunition to achieve nothing new.
Why are they counting down instead of up? :countdown:
XM just stands for experimental. I don't know how they number them though.