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KACPDW 6×35mm Possible M-16 Replacement

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For the past 20 years or so there has been an accelerated movement to develop a modern shoulder-fired weapon for close-range defense, a weapon offering easy concealment, good range and great terminal ballistics. Of course such a concept is not new and began a century ago with the stocked pistols and early submachine guns. Many similar contemporary weapons also fire “pistol” cartridges and were designed to fill the same role in mind. In between came the U.S. 30 Carbine, M1 & M2, which fired a cartridge that looked like a pistol round, but performed more like a light rifle cartridge, and had an effective range of 200 meters.

It was this type of performance that inspired the more recent developments, which have spawned the title of Personal Defense Weapon (PDW). Unlike the assault rifle, which was developed to both protect a position from assault and also be capable of assaulting an enemy position, the role of the PDW is to protect against an assault, especially when a VIP is involved.

The problem has been that most of the contemporary PDW’s have either been chambered for a true pistol cartridge, or a small caliber, short, bottlenecked cartridge, such as the 7.63×25mm (.30 Mauser). While resembling a rifle cartridge, the performance of these rounds is relatively limited. Worse is that the weapons that fire them do not seem to have been designed to be held or fired by an average size human being.

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