The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) announced on Friday that they will be purchasing up to 15,000 M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles (IAR) and spare parts from Heckler and Koch (H&K) in Ashburn, Virginia, under a ...

Marksmanship, the ability to shoot accurately and service targets with the minimum expenditure of ammunition, has always been part of the U.S. Marine Corps ethos. The adoption of the M27 Infantry ...

An M249 with a suppressor is fired to assess the performance and repeatability of the suppressor, which was produced at Picatinny Arsenal by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command ...

The main difference between the M27 and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, however, is accuracy. The M249 is first and foremost a machine gun and is accurate to about twelve minutes of angle, meaning rounds ...

The U.S. Marine Corps is expanding its use of a new automatic rifle, issuing it to all Marine infantry and other Marines at the very tip of the spear. The M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle will replace the ...

The Marine Corps is contemplating taking away carbines from infantrymen and replacing them with a highly accurate German-designed rifle originally meant to give squads accurate suppressive fire.

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