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To: Eagles6; Thunder 6; Future Snake Eater
[How is this rifle any different from another M16?]

It may be a sly way of replacing the M-16 and M-4. The M27 can fire full automatic as opposed to programmed bursts. It would become the standard assault rifle. There may be a replacement for the SAW on the horizon. Hopefully.

MODERN FIREARMS:

[After extensive trials in 2009 USMC finally selected the HK IAR rifle, which, in fact, is no more that heavy-barreled version of their HK 416 automatic carbine (assault rifle), and it hardly looks like adequate replacement for a dedicated squad automatic weapon with belt feed and quick-change barrel. By all accounts, it looks like USMC played the whole IAR trick to get the replacement for their M4 carbines without entering the political hassle and budgetary debates. In May 2010 the USMC representative officially anounced the adoption of the Heckler-Koch IAR as “M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle”. It is not clear when HK will begin delivery of the M27 rifles, and how much rifles will be delivered to USMC. . .]

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as109-e.htm

36 posted on 07/02/2010 10:57:52 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If that’s the case they are playing politics with the lives of Marines.


37 posted on 07/02/2010 2:56:43 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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