The US military unveiled implementation of the new 277 Fury round. This new round promises to bridge the gap between the current 5.56 rifle and 7.62 rounds and provide better applied ballistics.
This will be the basis of all future 277 Fury designs.
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u/TheNewAmericanGospel · 2025-03-28 22:27:49 UTC · score 2
I might have to agree to disagree on that. Calibers like the .277 fury don't have a wildly different twist rate than .308 or 5.56 respectively, 1:10 is common for .308 and 1:7 is common for .277 fury.
Accuracy of accelerator projectiles tend to be far under acceptable size for comba…
u/TheNewAmericanGospel · 2025-03-29 02:15:08 UTC · score 1
Ok, so in the 8 years you have been working in the gun industry as you claim, and with engineers you claim to work with, you had not heard until today about the accelerator bullet.
Next, the ammunition wasn't highly regarded as being extremely accurate, and because the main use woul…
u/Gabbs · 2022-10-04 03:35:40 UTC · score 13
The problem there is there is no availability on 6.8x51 chambered barrels and even if there was it wouldn't be compatible with anything that would be easy to obtain. The chamber pressure for .277 Fury is like 80,000psi where as 5.56 is only 62,000 psi. Even if you used ar10 parts it's not doable, that added to the…
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