Key Points – The M4 carbine, a compact derivative of the M16 rifle tracing its roots to the Vietnam-era CAR-15, became the ubiquitous weapon for US military personnel (Special Operations ...

The army will pick one rifle/optic combination for a contract worth 100,000 rifles. As Task & Purpose reported in April 2019, the Army has decided the weapons will “go to the top 100,000 that ...

The week before ARDEC rolled out its unusual M4 rig, rifle guru and retired Army major general Robert Scales testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 17 that revolutionary ...

That means soldiers are still going to be spending plenty of trigger time on iron sights, basic optics and shooting the M4 carbine before they shoulder the NGSW and use its space-age fire control.

The U.S. Army has picked a new, futuristic scope for its next-generation infantry weapons. The service awarded the contract, potentially worth $2.7 billion, to Wisconsin-based Vortex Optics.

“The M4 carbine, and, to a lesser degree, ... optics, slings, grips, bipods, ancillary weapons. They are part of the continuous evolution of a weapon as technology becomes available.

The service plans on fielding the new optic to the fleet to replace the existing Trijicon-made Rifle Combat Optic on the M4/M4A1 carbine and M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle starting in the first ...

The M5 would use the same 14.5-inch long barrel as the existing M4 carbine, ensuring that the weapon is manageable in the enclosed spaces of a truck, Stryker armored vehicle, or M2 Bradley ...

The M16A4 and the M4 Carbine were first issued to select units in the mid-90s. In the Special Forces, we were issued M4s around 1995. The Marine Corps adopted the M16A4 in 1997.