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Yesterday SAKO Ltd and Swedish Defence Material command and their Finnish counterparts decided to switch into common rifle system. The thought is not without some serious merit, and is in in a way step back into good old days of Swedish power in the late seventeeth century.
We can learn from the picture presented, that SAKO rifle is going to have ambidextrous controls all the way. MagPull MOE or CTR stock (As picture is a rendering of design , I cannot definitely say which. If you made me I’d wager for CRT ). There will be STANAG 4694 rail and M-lock slots in fore end. Barrel length seems to be (27 times 10mm gives fore end length of 270mm and muzzle device and a bit extra say 30mm which would give approximate barell lengt of 300mm or 12 inches). So in effect the already weaki
Where this will really hurt the rifle is in kinetic energy and wounding. Muzzle energy from 500mm barrel is ½*0,00356kg*(936m/s)² or 1559 joules where as ½*0,00356kg*(806m/s)² gives out 1156 joules of energy. Difference of 400 joules. The 5,56mm round fragments upon impact, and this is it’s primary wounding method. Out of 20 inch or 500mm barrel the fragmentation will take place to aproximately 150m out. The 14,5 inch barrel (v0 of 856m/s) will achieve this to about 75meters, so looking at the 12inch barrel