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Marjorie Taylor Greene said she offered up her semiautomatic battlefield rifle so she could remain in Washington, where she will "always fight for your right to keep and bear arms." ...
From the battlefields of World War II to the modern-day operations in the Middle East, the US Army Rangers have established ...
The Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle (NGSAR) may replace about 80,000 SAWs (the M249 squad automatic weapon). The well-known M249 SAWs were already beasts — now the Army’s light machine ...
The XM7 is the Army’s replacement for the M4 while the XM250 will replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. Both new weapons are chambered in 6.8mm, a larger and more powerful round than the ...
Their training covered the similarities and differences between the new weapons and the legacy 5.56mm M4A1 Carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon systems, focusing on enhanced lethality.
The weapons will replace the M4A1 Carbine and the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon within the next decade, Military.com reported. The XM7 is two pounds heavier than the M4, and the XM250 is five pounds ...
Last April, the Army awarded a contract to Sig Sauer to produce the Next Generation Squad Weapon — or NGSW — XM7 Rifle, XM250 Automatic Rifle and a 6.8mm family of ammunition to replace the ...
The Next Generation Squad Weapon automatic rifle is pictured here. (Army) By next year, the Army expects to field its first true replacement for the squad rifle and automatic rifle in a brand-new ...
The U.S. Army has selected Sig Sauer to build the service’s Next-Generation Squad Weapon Rifle and Automatic Rifle. This is the first time in 55 years that the Army has broken away from the M16 ...
An unloaded XM5 rifle is two pounds heavier than an unloaded M4. But the XM250 is four pounds lighter than the M249 SAW.
The wait is over. The Army has selected Sig Sauer to build the Next Generation Squad Weapon’s rifle and machine-gun variants that are intended to replace the M4 and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon.