Garand was chambered in .30-06, removing the need for the new cartridge. Immediately after World War II, British designers introduced a series of intermediate-power 7mm cartridges for a different reason than Pedersen. They sought an answer to the Germans' highly successful 7.92mm Kurz and various studies on the matter. The U.S. stuck with .30 caliber mostly out of a desire to have a common cartridge between rifle and machine gun combined with the perceived necessity for effectiveness out to 2,000 yards. Development of a shorter .30 round specifically for use in an autoloading rifle began after the war, and resulted in the 7.62×51mm NATO, a shorter and slightly lighter round that gave nearly identical ballistics to the .30-06. The British studies on various cartridges culminated in the .280 British cartridge, which shared ballistic similarities to the .276 Pedersen in caliber, bullet weight and velocity. Despite the failure to adopt either the .276 Pedersen or later .280 British, the concept of an intermediate power military cartridge of a 6.5 to 7mm diameter was far from dead. Shortly after the 7.62mm NATO cartridge was adopted, Armalite submitted their AR-10 for evaluation, the U.S. Army suggested they redesign the gun to fire a .256 caliber projectile. Although this suggestion was fruitless, the Army later engaged in many studies of a 6mm SAW cartridge. They, once again, sought to replace autoloading rifle and machine gun cartridges with one round. Nearly 100 years after the .276 Pederson introduced the concept of a 7mm infantry round, on April 19, 2022, the United States Army adopted the .277 Fury (6.8 x 51 Common) as the United States Army's general purpose cartridge, this cartridge features a 7.04 mm bullet in a necked down 7.62 x 51 NATO case. The adoption of this round reinforces the Army's 1923 conclusion about the superiority of 7mm-ballistics (then signified by the proposed adoption of the .276 Pedersen) compared to a 30 caliber round, and finally places ballistic performance in front of General Douglas MacArthur's cost-saving decision to scrap a 7mm bullet in favor of military surplus 30-06 ammunition left over from World War One as the primary cartridge to be used in the M-1 Garand during World War Two. The new 7-mm .277 Fury round will be deployed both in an in infantry battle rifle as well as in a dedicated machine gun and exemplifies the versatility of the 7-mm bullet in