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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The M249 is not a particularly accurate weapon, accurate to only twelve minutes of angle (MOA). In other words, at 100 yards a burst from an M249 could be expected to ...

The M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) is chonky. It’s a nightmare to clean. It’s a reasonably heavy, demanding, ammo jam waiting to happen, that will cycle the one speck of dust you missed at 3 a.m.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Army is researching its Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle, which promises a lighter gun and ammunition while remaining highly lethal. In the early 1990s, the ...

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, ...

FORT LIBERTY, NC – A dynamic shift in the way the Army operates, from counterinsurgency to large-scale combat operations, has been occurring for almost a decade. Soldiers need to remain lethal, and ...