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Current contract (2008) is supposed to include a rail system and optics. Everybody in the Army will eventually have them, either through new fieldings or retrofit. We (SF, etc.) still get to be "special" with SOPMOD II.
IMNSHO Colt should have been bankrupt and out of business years ago. Lousy business model, kept alive by congressional misconduct and misplaced nostalgia. I like the M-4 (within limits) but I don't think it's worth what Colt's charging. I also think there are better options available without throwing the baby out with the bath water, e.g. SOCOMs push for the SCAR (that jury isn't even in session yet).
The Army needs to look at something a little more attainable/realistic than the current fixation on a "quantum leap". Railguns and laser pistols aren't coming in our lifetime.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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