The XM8 Rifle

The M16 has been the primary rifle in  service of the army for a very long time now. Naturally, the army has begun looking for more high-tech replacements. Although all the competitions hosted by the army have yielded no economical replacements for the M16, some very interesting designs have been created.

Among my favorites is the XM8 Rifle, a modular rifle system that comes in four primary variants: The carbine, the basic version of the rifle that can be modified into the other versions, the sharpshooter  variant, a type with a longer barrel that fires slower but is more accurate, the compact carbine, made with the stock folded in and a very small barrel, and the fully automatic rifle, which uses a carbon-composite 20" barrel, folding stock, and a 100-round drum clip.

The XM8 was originally scheduled for mass production in 2004, but was canceled in 2005 due to it not being very cost-effective, as well as for some flaws that began to show themselves after several years of testing. Nonetheless, it is a very powerful, efficient gun, and has been featured in many video games about warfare in the next century.

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Comments

[jex]

suuuuuuch a smexxy weapon

main game with XM8 - Battlefield: Bad Company

[Oman Cstrike]

Cool!