: The Steyr ACR! This is very cool! It seems odd that they abandoned it because
: it was not 100% better than the M16 as the author claims. You would think
: even 10% better would be great and "worth a shot". OMG!! Did
: they test it under lava???
: Gary Simmons
: the Battle Cat
I was about to post that rifle after you wrote it down.
The reason they didn't buy it was because a single flechette doesn't do much damage. It can penetrate almost any armored vest you can find, but it lacks significant power to make it worth while. We'd have soldiers unloading half a magazine just to bring down one person.