{"id":54658,"date":"2014-08-20T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T13:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54658"},"modified":"2014-08-20T09:13:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T13:13:55","slug":"the-fix-is-in-on-the-m4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54658","title":{"rendered":"The fix is in on the M4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times<\/a> writes that the Army abruptly ended tests seeking to select a new main battle rifle when at least one rifle showed signs of outperforming the M4A1;<\/p>\n

The report also says the Army changed the ammunition midstream to a round \u201ctailored\u201d for the M4A1 rifle. It quoted competing companies as saying the switch was unfair because they did not have enough time to fire the new ammo and redesign their rifles before the tests began.<\/p>\n

Exactly how the eight challengers \u2014 and the M4 \u2014 performed in a shootout to replace the M4, a soldier\u2019s most important personal defense, has been shrouded in secrecy.<\/p>\n

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Congress pressed the Army to hold the shootout in the face of mounting criticism from soldiers that the M4 is unreliable. The M4 is perhaps the most deployed weapon system in the war on terror \u2014 essential firepower in combating the Taliban, al Qaeda and other insurgents at close range during raids and firefights.<\/p>\n

The Times earlier this year published a two-part series on the M4 revealing that, as the war on terror began, the carbine flunked several reliability tests when subjected to rapid fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n