This is the machine gun that replaced that legendary weapon As a formidable complement to the lighter 5.56 mm-based M249, M16, and M4 weapons, M240 is a successful and well-regarded tool of ...

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron takes off from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Oct. 6, 2014, during RED FLAG-Alaska 15-1. RF-A is a ...

The M249 Squad Automatic Weapon ... during the 1950s because interim automatic weapons (e.g. M-14E2/M16A1) had failed as viable "base of fire" weapons. Early in the SAW's fielding, the Army ...

The NGSW will eventually replace both the M4 carbine and the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in close combat formations. The M240B is a variant of the M240, used by the U.S. Army, Navy, Coast Guard ...

SIG engineers had set up a selection for comparison, including the M4 and M249, the M7 and M250, as well as the classic M240 7.62-millimeter machine gun and SIG Sauer’s MHS military pistol.

Key Point: Eventually, the M60 general-purpose machine gun replaced the BAR, as did the M240 and M249 series of squad-level machine guns. But the BAR is far from gone and forgotten. World War I is ...

R. Scott Dingle, the previous U.S. Army Surgeon General, requested the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence (MEDCoE) conduct a holistic assessment of the employment and use of the M249 light ...