A couple of weeks ago the US Army finally announced the winner of their long running Next Generation Squad Weapon program, selecting the SIG Sauer MCX Spear rifle as the XM5 and the LMG-6.8 as the XM250. The topic of whether this was the right choice and if the 6.8mm round they cham...
A Soldier fires the unsuppressed Sig Sauer XM7 Rifle with Vortex XM157 Fire Control from the standing position during a controllability trial of the Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) Production Soldier Tough Point at Aberdeen Proving Ground, November 2022. Credit: US Army. As part of its tra...
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The service is considering integrating the robot with the Sig Sauer XM7 Rifle, explainsJanes. This is interesting but not the first attempt at this sort of thing. For example, the Army has previously tested using an M4A1 carbine on a Q-UGV. However, if they were to try the Sig Sauer X...
January 19, 2017: It was the hugest service pistol deal in history when the US Army decided that SIG Sauer with its P320 alias M17 in 9 mm Luger is the winner of the Modular Handgun System (MHS) contract. Already in September 2017 the first M17 pistols were built in Newington and just...
Rifle1894 Winchester HandgunS&W Model 10 ShotgunFusil de Tulle HobbyBushcraft SportBasketball BookJurassic Park MovieA Bridge Too Far Graham Baates “Graham Baates” is a pen name used by a 15-year active Army veteran who spent most of his time in the tactical side of the Intelligence communi...
Army AUSA Now, the first virtual annual meeting of the Association of the U.S. Army, wasn’t the same as our usual in-person event, but it still offered multiple opportunities to hear directly from senior Army leaders and explore the innovative capabilities offered by more than 500 ...
The US Army's ‘robotic dog' technology development programme is exploring how it could add an infantry rifle as a payload, the service told Janes recently.
Mike Simpson graduated the Q-Course as an 18B Special Forces Weapons Sergeant and was sent to 1st Special Forces Group SFG(A) in Tacoma, WA at Ft. Lewis. He was assigned to C co, 4/1 SFG(A) where he spent the next few years training and deploying with his team. While deployed to...