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Taking it to the dedicated thread that hasn't been posted in for three months.

...This has me wondering just how useful a plastic explosive based caseless small arm could be. Depending on the details, you might be able to put in a big block of plastic explosive that has the appropriate amount shaved off, then a separate magazine of projectiles has one pulled from it to be...

And conversely, caseless rifles have much more compact ammunition for magazine capacity and bulk shipping. It's a performance vs. logistics issue, and the US military is one of the worst places in the world for one wishing to trade the current state of the former for the latter.

There seems to be literally nothing at all providing projectile stability but raw inertia. It is literally blunt metal rods, with a laser sight bolted on. With sod-all ability to zero it. It's a significant achievement because it's *usable*, even if it isn't *good*.