One pound doesn’t seem like a lot until it’s on a soldier’s shoulder for miles. That was the plain-spoken criticism in the field that forced Sig Sauer to trim as much as 10 percent from the Army’s new ...

In May 2025, the U.S. Army’s Soldier Lethality Project at the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey announced the official type ...

What is/was the best U.S. Army rifle? If we’re going to go with length of service, then one could make the case for the M16/M4 series, which in one variant or another has been the Army’s standard ...

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The Army has officially designated its newest rifle and automatic rifle the M7 and M250, respectively. The move, which the service touted as a “major program milestone,” comes weeks after the Army’s ...

The Army's new rifle for individual soldiers, the M7, has been moved out of a testing program designed within the Pentagon designed to provide real-world, independent reviews of weapon systems. The ...

A soldier conducts training with XM7 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, June 20, 2024. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Turner Horton. An Army captain’s research paper, written at a Marine Corps professional ...

When soldiers get their hands on the Army’s new rifle, it will be known as the M7, the service said Wednesday. More than five years in the making, the Next Generation Squad Weapon will replace the M4 ...

Spc. Divenson Willis, a scout from 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment, provides security with the Mk22 Precision Sniper Rifle. (Maj. Gregory Walsh/Army) The Army is upgrading a multipurpose sniper ...