尽管过去几十年科学技术有进步,但武器制造厂家在常规武器系统性能革命方面取得的进展却是很小的。实际上,仅仅在射程、精度、目标效应和轻便性几个关键方面的适当改进,可望在下世纪初之前才会体现出来。在对目前美军装备的几种单兵武器和班组操作武器(以及任何相同的预定改进项目)的效能进行分析以后,佐治亚州本宁堡步兵学校所作的评价也得出了上述结论。 Despite advances in science and technology over the past few decades, progress has been made by weapon manufacturers in the performance revolution of conventional weapon systems. In fact, appropriate improvements in just a few key aspects of range, accuracy, target effect and portability are expected to come before the turn of the century. The above conclusion was reached by the evaluation made by the Fort Benin Infantry School in Georgia after analyzing the effectiveness of several existing SALW and squadrons (and any of the same scheduled improvements) that are currently being deployed on the U.S. military.