Summary: The U.S. Army's Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program aims to replace the M4 carbine and M249 light machine gun with the XM7 rifle and XM250 automatic rifle, both chambered in the ...

The Army’s new weapon will look like a light machine gun, but will put M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank-style blasting power literally at the fingertips of U.S. soldiers.

By the 1980s, U.S. ground forces started shopping around for a new light machine gun ... that has been mostly replaced by the Mk.46 and Mk.48 lightweight machine guns, also based on the M249.

A third featured what appears to be a variant of the M249 SAW light machine gun and a shoulder-fired rocket launcher.. Stewart was not surprised to see so much high-end military equipment being ...

With a basic load of 1,000 rounds, the LSAT light machine gun and its cased telescoped ammunition is 20.4 pounds lighter than a traditional SAW with the same amount of standard, ... or M249, the ...

Firing crew use one of two weapon systems to engage targets, a M249 light machine gun and the .50 caliber machine gun with blank... 3BSB Certify on Machine Gun Gunnery. By Spc.

There's one in 5.56-millimeter as an alternative to the U.S. Military's M249 Light Machine Gun and one in 7.62-millimeter (see above) as an alternative to the M240L Medium Machine Gun.

Army Sgt. Michael Zamora uses a prototype Third Arm exoskeleton to easily aim an 18-pound M249 light machine gun during testing at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, March 14, 2018.U.S. Army ...

Sig Sauer’s new lightweight machine gun is fired during a Sig Sauer range day in Last Vegas Jan. 20, 2019. The new MG has maximum effective range of about 2,000 meters and weighs about 20 pounds ...