09-16-2019, 02:51 PM
From https://defence-blog.com/army/u-s-army-w...-m249.html
"Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark A. Milley on 10 April said that somewhere in the range of 100,000 of NGSW will initially be purchased for Soldiers who engage in close-quarters combat.
According to the U.S. Army Contracting Command officials, the new weapons will include the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle (NGSW-R) and the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Automatic Rifle (NGSW-AR).
The NGSW-R is the planned replacement for the M4/M4A1 Carbine and the NGSW-AR is the planned replacement for the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) in the Automatic Rifleman Role in the Close Combat Force.""
That is the pie-in-the-sky plan, but no plan survives first contact with reality. The original idea also assumed that both the weapons and ammo would be lighter and lower recoil than what we have now. I think it likely that the initial deployment will be the SAW replacement and/or DMR replacement.
"Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark A. Milley on 10 April said that somewhere in the range of 100,000 of NGSW will initially be purchased for Soldiers who engage in close-quarters combat.
According to the U.S. Army Contracting Command officials, the new weapons will include the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle (NGSW-R) and the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Automatic Rifle (NGSW-AR).
The NGSW-R is the planned replacement for the M4/M4A1 Carbine and the NGSW-AR is the planned replacement for the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) in the Automatic Rifleman Role in the Close Combat Force.""
That is the pie-in-the-sky plan, but no plan survives first contact with reality. The original idea also assumed that both the weapons and ammo would be lighter and lower recoil than what we have now. I think it likely that the initial deployment will be the SAW replacement and/or DMR replacement.