Time is truly a flat circle
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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I like all these future systems that never actually get fully deployed. Like a handful of Gucci teams get the toys and then they drop the contract.
The XM25 actually went to line units who seemed to actually like it, however the contract got delayed to 2017-2018. That timeframe just seems like a bad time for a brand new weapon and ammo to try and adopted. It was too late to be in the height of GWOT combat and too early to be part of the post-GWOT wave of armament overhaul.
Either that or it being a bullpup cursed it away from US adoption.
I thought a single OOB discharge basically grounded the whole line and they just said fuck it we're not taking the time to fix this.
It was also very expensive in system and ammo for an individual weapon, which probably informed the decision.
The OOB accident temporarily halted the project and pushed back the expected adoption from 2013ish to 2017-2018. 2017 came and went with the project canceled then. As you say an expensive system, and being pushed at an exact window of time when there was less interest.