The Army has officially fielded its brand-new Next Generation Squad Weapon rifles to its first unit, bringing an end to the service's decades-long effort to replace its M4 and M16 family of military ...

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

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Army is preparing for potential conflicts, including with China, by equipping frontline units with new rifles and machine guns under the Next Generation... SIG Sauer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first soldiers to field the Army’s newest rifle and automatic rifle began live-fire training with the weapons this week, ...

Soldiers with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky are the first to receive the Army’s new Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) system this week. On Thursday, soldiers from the 1st Battalion, ...

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Army continues its rigorous testing and evaluation of small arms systems to meet their requirements and deliver increased lethality to the Soldier. Last April, the Army awarded ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. – Soldiers with the West Virginia and North Carolina Army National Guard are among those testing what may become the Army’s new standard-issue rifle and machine gun. “To be able to ...

An infantryman with the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team test-fires the Next Generation Squad Weapon Rifle XM7 at Fort Liberty, North Carolina on June 6, 2024. (Sgt. 1st Class Leticia Samuels/Army) ...

National Guard soldiers tested the M250 light machine gun during a “New Equipment Training” (NET) event at Camp Ripley, Minnesota. Whether National Guard personnel will continue to be deployed to curb ...

Baumholder, Germany, May 23, 2016: Sgt. Timothy Harris reassembles an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon wearing night-vision goggles during the 21st Theater Sustainment Command Best Warrior Competition.

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade practice with the M249 light machine gun before testing on the weapon lanes at Grafenwöhr Training Area, Grafenwöhr, Sept. 17, 2025. Weapon lanes ...