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 conclussion 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 cartidege to be used in the M-1 Gerrand during World War Two.  The new 7-mm .277 Fury round will be deployed both in an in infinitry battle rifle as well as in a dedicated machine gun and exemplifies the versatility of the 7-mm bullet in both weapon systems.