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.

The United States is quietly rewriting the rules of small arms, betting that a radically different rifle and machine gun will ...

Small arms forced doctrine rewrites by exposing gaps between design intent and battlefield reality rather than through superior performance. Weapons created new infantry roles including assault troops ...