In addition to its own PDW designs, Maxim Defense has also introduced an ammunition line and is one of more than two dozen U.S.

So I combined all of that and we sat down and worked through a product deal with Fort Scott, and I took their projectile and we put a bunch of it through our weapons and optimized different calibers for our weapons, both in the five-and-a-half- and eight-and-a-half variants.” … And if I am going to make a decision to engage a threat, I want to make sure that I have the best possibility for the terminal ballistics to eliminate that threat. “If you are pulling that thing out, things have gone really bad. “Take a PDW for what it is - a personal defense weapon,” he summarized. 30 cal projectile loaded in a 5.56 case and burning pistol powder - you’re now getting 2,000 feet per second out of a five-and-a-half-inch gun.” “In my opinion, that was the genesis of why the 300 Blackout became popular in the SOF community,” he said. 30 cal projectile, but utilizing pistol powder inside of that, which gives you a lot of muzzle velocities that you were losing in a short barrel with a rifle round. 300 BLK design, which included “taking a 5.56 case and necking it out to a. So trying to deal with a weapon system that would give you the right combination of distance and accuracy, and then trying to maneuver in a civilian vehicle with either only a pistol or ‘a 10.3,’ which you then had to keep out of sight, and then deal with and try to react to something, you kind of had limited expectations.”Ĭrediting the early development work done by Advanced Armament Corp., Dugan offered a general description of the.

The only other answers you had were a pistol or a Mk18. “The old way was, if you were doing ‘low vis’ close target reconnaissance or protection, you really only had an MP5, which is hard to deal with these days because of parts. Dugan, vice president of business development at Maxim Defense, which has developed its own personal defense weapon designs. “We’re dealing in whole different types of mission sets,” explained C.J. Special Operations Command have identified specific command interest in a compact personal defense weapon chambered in. Recent requests for information released by U.S. Often created as so-called “wildcat” rounds, prior to their broader acceptance and expanded production availability, these new caliber cartridges each provide a staggering array of design and performance specifics, experts said.

300 PRC (Precision Rifle Cartridge), and both. 300 AAC (Advanced Armament Corporation) Blackout (.300 BLK), 6.5 Creedmoor. Army’s emerging 6.8 mm Next Generation Squad Weapon, the community has embraced calibers like the. Rather than the better known weapon designs in 5.56 mm, 7.62 mm. special operations community over the last 10 to 12 years involves exploration and acquisition of small arms in new ballistic calibers. One phenomenon that has emerged from the U.S.

338 spectre next to 300 blackout