U.S. Army will receive 100K NGSW weapons systems for replacing M4 and M249

Cheaper bullets?

An AK-107 clone but loaded in 6.5 CM

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FOR FUCK'S SAKE

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It's neither.
It's polymer case telescoped ammo.

The army always said they would not change 5.56/7.62 until something actually better by a really big margin came along.
It has.

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Sauce?

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It's still significantly lighter and more compact than conventional ammo. Caseless is a meme.

Read OP, use your brain, have prior knowledge of what is going on.

"this new round promises to have better range, improved accuracy at longer distances, and greater armor penetration capability over the existing 5.56x45mm ammunition the service uses now"

But what about recoil?