{"id":106217,"date":"2020-10-15T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106217"},"modified":"2020-10-14T21:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T01:33:44","slug":"updates-on-the-armys-new-combat-rifle-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106217","title":{"rendered":"Updates on the Army&#8217;s new combat rifle competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-14-at-20.27.58.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-106218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-14-at-20.27.58-500x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-14-at-20.27.58-500x247.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-14-at-20.27.58-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-14-at-20.27.58-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-14-at-20.27.58.png 1516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff LPH 3 sent me this article on the Army&#8217;s continuing selection process for a new personal rifle, to replace the M4\/M16 and the M249 SAW.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The gun that will replace both the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon and the M16\/M4 rifle\/carbine weapons \u2014 and add a new, widely distributed caliber to the U.S. military inventory for the first time in decades \u2014 is less than two years away.<\/p>\n<p>The Next Generation Squad Weapon finished its first prototype test event in September. The three previously selected offerings came from Sig Sauer, Textron Systems and General Dynamics Ordnance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a plan in the works for a new optics system for the rifle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Concurrently, the Army in April has also selected two companies, L3 Technologies and Vortex Optics, to compete for the fire control for the weapons system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots more at the source.<\/p>\n<p>Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/10\/14\/the-armys-saw-and-m4-replacement-is-headed-to-troops-by-2022\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Army%20DNR%2010.14.20&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Army%20-%20Daily%20News%20Roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defense News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff LPH 3 sent me this article on the Army&#8217;s continuing selection process for a new &hellip; <a title=\"Updates on the Army&#8217;s new combat rifle competition\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106217\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Updates on the Army&#8217;s new combat rifle competition<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,232,406,156,503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-army-news","category-guest-link","category-guns","category-science-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106219,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106217\/revisions\/106219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}