Welcome to What’s Next In War, a special issue where Task & Purpose breaks down what’s on the horizon for the U.S. military. After nearly five years of development, the Army could be just weeks away ...

In the early 1990s, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps introduced a new weapon designed to radically boost the firepower of infantry squads. The M249 squad automatic weapon, or SAW, fired the same ...

The U.S. Army is determined to modernize its small arms arsenal, and the journey starts with the squad automatic weapon. The Army is seeking to replace its current M249 Squad Automatic Weapon with a ...

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The US Army is looking for an upgrade to the M249 squad automatic weapon, a mainstay of the infantry squad and its prime source of firepower. According to a notice on the government's Federal Business ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Army News Service, May 6, 2015) -- When engineers here looked at the heavy, 17.5-pound M249 carried by Soldiers, they decided to put it on a diet and rearrange some of the ...

The M249 SAW is a belt-fed light machine gun that is capable of sustaining suppressive fire without slowing down ambush or raid teams These are just two types of missions that Army Rangers carry out, ...

Paratroopers from the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion “Gladius”, 82nd Airborne Division, practice their M240 and M249 machine gun proficiency during a daytime qualification at Fort Bragg, ...

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