US Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

gelgoog said:

They moved maintenance from the USAF to Lockheed Martin, so they would make more money, and it has been a disaster.

You could also argue the higher complexity of these aircraft makes them more unreliable.

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SlothmanAllen said:

I found this interesting chart posted on SecretProjectForum.View attachment 160065

You can see that throughout most of the 90's the F-15 and F-16's had tons of flying time. Once the 00's roll around though their numbers start to tank. F-15E on the other hand has done well to basically maintain the same number of flying hours throughout its life. F-35A is starting to look good as well. F-22 seems to have always been a bit rough though.

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HighGround said:

The only thing that makes zero sense is F-15E availability massively dropping. These are fairly new airframes.

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HighGround said:

The only thing that makes zero sense is F-15E availability massively dropping. These are fairly new airframes.

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Aniah said:

A review of the new XM7 NGSW by both civilians and military personnel.

Some keynotes.

Gun:
- Not much improvement over the existing AR-15-type weapons.
- Quite heavy
- Bad hanguard design that is constantly loose or gets loose easily, ruining accuracy.
- Middle of the ground accuracy when it works. ( 2 MOA)
- Really expensive at $5K per rifle.


Bullet: (Civilian version & General Purpose rounds)
- Extremely high pressures cause jamming & extreme wear and tear on the rifle.
- Reports on gun jamming/in need of replacements by 1000 rounds and as low as 500 rounds.
- A larger round means fewer rounds per mag and total mags carried than 556, and more weight on both the gun and person.
- Surprisingly inaccurate due to many factors
- Kicks like a mule and is uncomfortable to shoot repeatedly unless the $1.6K suppressor is attached.
- Loud and very hot
- Expensive and rather hard to make, with an undisclosed number of failures with each batch.


Overall:
- Giving every soldier a battle rifle is a bad idea.
- If you absolutely want to give every soldier a battle rifle, there are better calibers and rifles to choose from.
- When soldiers reported the ammo or lack of ammo issues while in the field, they were told to "shoot less" (lmao )
- The $10K smart scope that's supposed to come with every rifle doesn't always work, and when it fails, it would pop up "error" signs over the reticle, making the scope useless.
- Some military personnel in the comment section say that if they could choose, they would stick with the M1As with an upgrade kit and different caliber kits rather than using this rifle.

- Funny enough, SIG sent the rifle plus $8,000 worth of rounds of 6.8 to the YouTuber, thinking it would be a positive review. Got dunked on by everyone who's shot it instead.
- Turns out, you can't just give a soldier an XM7 with a smart scope and think it magically turned every rank and file soldier into a marksman, much less a sniper. You're gonna need training to shoot past 600 meters where the bullets intened for.

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