An Army officer has raised questions about the Next Generation Squad Weapon rifle, including whether its magazine holds ...

"The new rifle addresses the 300 to 600 meters range gap outlined in the 2015 U.S. Army Small Arms Capabilities-Based Assessment," Goodrich said. "The Army is working to equip each squad with a ...

The officer interviewed more than 150 soldiers as part of his research, which was presented at an annual Marine Corps ...

The U.S. Army will buy new automatic ... Candidates for the Next Generation Squad Weapon and associated optics. The army will pick one rifle/optic combination for a contract worth 100,000 rifles.

When soldiers get their hands on the Army’s new rifle, it will be known as the M7, the service said Wednesday. More than five years in the making, the Next Generation Squad Weapon will replace ...

The Army is changing the name of its new rifle after accidentally taking a name from an unrelated existing weapon, the service announced Wednesday. The service's upcoming M5 from Sig Sauer will ...

Sig Sauer MCX SPEAR, the civilian version of its new Next Generation Squad ... Army originally chose the designation XM5 as the name of the new rifle in March. Since then, the service learned that ...

The Army has officially fielded its brand-new Next Generation Squad Weapon rifles to its first ... caliber weapons and ammunition." The XM7 rifle. (U.S. Army photo) Based on Sig Sauer's MCX ...

U.S. Army Fort Campbell Garrison Commander Col. Christopher Midberry fires a Next-Generation Squad ... More Weapon (NGSW) Machine Gun during a weapon familiarization demonstration, Sept.

The Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) is a US Army project, designed to deliver a new small arms system to the US close-quarter combatants. NGSW is centered around a new rifle (NGSW-R), light ...