Hi richard surckla; Okay, sure. The article said "
Elite soldiers will carry a new two-barrelled rifle called the objective individual combat weapon, which can even wipe out opponents hidden in trenches or behind vehicles." The weapon they're talking about are hardly even in prototype. Nobody's going to see any in action any time soon. Here's a link:
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On 04 August 2000 Alliant Techsystems Integrated Defense Co., LLC, Hopkins, Minn., was awarded a $6,946,000 increment as part of a $95,426,483 cost-plus-award-fee contract for research and development to advance the state-of-the-art Objective Individual Combat Weapon (OICW), Program Definition and Risk Reduction (PD&RR). Work will be performed in Hopkins, Minn., and is expected to be completed in the third quarter of FY04. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was an announcement in the Commerce Business Daily on Nov. 5, 1999, and one bid was received.
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fas.org
If we're still fighting this in the "third quarter of FY04" the above rifle might be put into production. A year later, the army could be equipped with them.
I sincerely hope this war doesn't last long enough to see the above in use.
-- Carl |
