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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The US Armed Forces widely uses the M249 SAW light machine gun, as it's tried and tested on the battlefield, but all weapons have limitations, as a new video from West Coast Armory shows. To test the ...