The not-really Next Generation Weapons Program

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The not-really Next Generation Weapons Program
By Allan Orr
Feb 28, 09:05 AM
Pictured here are Sig Sauer's MCX SPEAR rifles, the civilian version of its new Next Generation Squad Weapon rifle. (Sig Sauer)

On all key technical measures, the Next Generation Squad Weapons program is imploding before Army’s very eyes. The program is on mechanical life support, and its progenitors at the Joint Chiefs obstinately now ramming the program through despite spectacularly failing multiple civilian-sector peer reviews almost immediately upon commercial release.

Indeed the rifle seems cursed from birth. Even the naming has failed. Army recently allowed a third-party company to scare it off the military designation M5. The re-naming will certainly also help scupper bad public relations growing around ‘XM-5′ search results.

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