ARGH!!!! Someone said the name of the Dark ONe - OICW!<br><br>It's more than just heavy- it's unfeasable. The rounds have to be hand built, and that isnt likely to change for a while. So, they cost about a grand a pop, and they blow up IN THE GUN about .5% of the time. About half of the prototypes have been destroyed that way- fortunately, they were being fired from machine rests at the time. About another 10% of the round fail to fuse, and fragmentation is erratic.<br><br>The French Papon system is similiar, but it uses a larger, 30mm shell. And a real rifle. The fatter shell is as long, so there is more space available- I think it will work better than oops we're testing. The Soviets foudn that 30mm was about as small as you can make it if you want to have realistic frgementation when they were building thier AGS, and still have it be a reasonable length. Yes, 20 and 25mm can do fine on point targets, breaking armour and buildings, but to nail guys int he open, you need volume.<br><br>The Aussies are paper designing something that will use thier MetalStorm system, moutned on top of a modified AUG, in 23-25mm. But it is primarly intended for armour popping, though fragmentation loades are possible.<br><br>Besides, I'm hearing rumors through my friends and family members that are SOCCOM assets or Marines that it isn't exactly Marine/Ranger/Airbone/Green Beret/SEAL/PJ-proof. Until it is, leave it in Natick, with the people who say that a fork in an MRE is a no-no because it might rupture the packaging if the package is run over by an armoured vehicle. (I'm serious folks, there is a specification that the MRE must be anle to take being run over by a tank!!!! I wouldn't hungry after my lunch got squashed like that.)<br><br>I hate to say this, but at the end of the ACR trials, they might have been right when they said that there was nothing that really showed a marked improvement over the M-16A2/M-203 combo. Although, I'd like to see the Masterkey from Knight be made a standard issue item- shotguns are nice to have around, maybe issue them to the guy buddied with the fireteam leader?