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 ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The M249’s time is coming to a close. Each Marine rifle company retains ten weapons in storage just in case the company commander needs them. The Army is researching ...

The M250 is not the Army polishing an old idea, it is the Army admitting the fight moved out, got tougher, and demands a belt ...

CAMP CASEY, South Korea -- The sky was covered with clouds, but the heat penetrated to the surface. Once the dust had settled and all the rounds had been fired, the Soldiers stood up and looked down ...

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.

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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 M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW, is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change barrel ...

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