Posted on 07/09/2010 4:33:25 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Belgium-based firearms manufacturer FN Herstal hereby refutes the allegations recently found on the web that USSOCOM abandoned the 5.56 version of the SCAR rifle and reconfirms USSOCOM's decision to acquire the full FN SCAR family of weapons, including the 5.56mm rifle.
The FN SCAR family of weapons consists of the 5.56mm SCAR rifle, 7.62mm SCAR rifle and 40mm LV Enhanced Grenade Launcher Module (respectively designated as MK 16, MK 17 and MK 13 by USSOCOM). These three components were developed by FN Herstal in close cooperation with USSOCOM and have each met all the operational and fielding tests required by the program.
This resulted in the notification by USSOCOM last May that the full SCAR system entered into Milestone C phase, allowing production and deployment of the full range of SCAR weapons. The 5.56 version will be part of USSOCOM's inventory.
The choice between the 5.56 and the 7.62 caliber will be left to the discretion of each constitutive component of USSOCOM's Joint Command (e.g. Seals, Rangers, Army Special Forces, USMC, AFSOC) depending on their specific missions on today's battlefield.
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MEOW!!!
I prefer AUG HBAR in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. SCAR-H has too small a clip and too slow a rate of fire. Nice recoil suppression though.
Rangers have had them for about a year.
or yer FN 5.56 fer that matter....
I dig ‘em all.
Been pining for a bullpup of somekind here lately...
WOW! Freepers and Call of Duty. Love it!!!!
A blinged out MG-4 is my preference. More rounds
FN Herstal probably would not exist today if not for John Browning. The factory was originally built to fulfill a contract for Mauser Rifles in the late 1800s.
After the contract was filled, the factory had nothing to do. They tried building other products to keep the doors open but the company was saved by John Browning’s .32 auto which they built literally in the hundreds of thousands. FN and Browning began an association which eventually resulted in what I guess is the largest arms manufacturing facility in the world.
I like it,, but what is it and what does it cost? ( I’m in the market for a new rifle)
Remington Model 7615 in .223, google it for pics.
lol
Jack Bauer had one in the last episode of “24”...
Amazing how europeans can be good for something when one old grey haired american tells them what to do and they do it.
hehe
Sorry Guy[s], but I want to go to an AR-10. I love the punch of a 7.62 mm, for a rifle & a good old fashioned .45 Colt for a side arm. I do go on the “spray & pray” idea of a gun fight.
Sorry, that should say I do not go on the “spray & pray” method in a gun fight. But I do try to make each and every round count for something....
That’s a S.C.A.R. by fabrique nationale of belgium.
You can’t afford it.
i tried to order one a year or two ago. my gun shop proprietor laughed at me and then told me the going price and the wait. He had the same response when I tried to order a rohrbaugh and then again when I tried to order a boberg.
http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg212-e.htm
http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/rohrbaugh/images/compared/pipe-stuff-s.jpg
Sell a kidney!
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