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Suave is right, OICW is DEAD, it died with the XM8 project...
as for the more common designation being .223 winchester, winchester had nothing to do with the .223, remington did however.
and suave, the 7.62 came about in very different ways, we shoved the 7.62 down the rest of NATO's throats, and they shoved the 5.56 down ours. You have to remember, NATO was not exactly pleased with the changeover, we insisted on the 7.62 then abandoned it rather quickly.
It's not cheap to re-equip a whole army.
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