Whoah! Since when did M855 get to 3,000 fps? Last time I heard, it was at 2750 fps. Big difference.
As for your argument, it's a fallacy. I don't like getting hit with paintballs when the speedballers have cranked them up to 400 fps. Does that mean the US military should switch to .68 caliber paintballs in all their combat weapons?
So my argument is a fallacy, but you're making references to paintballing? Paintballing is a
bit different than fighting for your life. The most casual of observers could tell you that. I'm not suggesting that we should give soldiers weapons set on "stun". I'm saying that a lot of the people on here and other RKBA sites are putting the paper performance before the real life performance. The MiG 15 was a superior fighter jet to the F-86 Saber,
on paper. The Tiger tank was
far better than the Sherman,
on paper. The Bismark was better than anything the British Fleet had,
on paper. The Japanese Fleet was better than the post- Pearl Harbor American Fleet,
on paper. We can sit here and banter all day about how effective a cartridge or bullet is, but at the end of the day, it's not the specifications of the round or piece of military hardware that make the difference, it's how well the men in the theater use it.
The MiG had better performance specs and better weapons than the F-86, but the experience of American pilots decimated their North Korean foes and the Soviet instructors they faced.
The Tiger tank had a main gun that put the Sherman's to shame, and armor that was perhaps the best available at the time, but the logistics needed to produce it and the idiocy of the German High Command (Hitler in particular) made them a blunt instrument against the Allies, who used tanks that were made so that they were endless in supply and were commanded by men who didn't have the urge to wipe out a race and had a hard amphetamine addiction.
The Bismark was the pride of the German fleet, and was the most feared ship in the Northern Atlantic during the spring of 1940. Its rudder was jammed when a fabric- winged, wooden- structured biplane of the British Navy fired a torpedo and damaged the rudder. After that, the British battle group turned the fight into a blood bath, with German blood running out of the faucet.
The Japanese Fleet was better than the American Pacific Fleet by the simple virtue that the majority of the American Fleet was on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. I think you can figure out where that headed.
Am I saying that there aren't better rounds out there for our soldiers? No. Am I saying that we might be nit- picking based on specifications and not what happens in real life? Yes.