Corps moves to replace M249 - Marine Corps News, news from Iraq - Marine Corps Times
Jan 5th 2009MichaelMarine Corps
All have major US based manufacturing but FN and H&K are global companies (which really means they are headquartered outside of the US) while doing sales and manufacturing in the US. Both struggle with the make a gun safe mentality of the EU mind set.
The Corps has awarded four contracts to three companies to produce prototypes of the 5.56mm Infantry Automatic Rifle, which is slated to supplant the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW, according a Dec. 26 Marine Corps Systems Command announcement.
The three firms will compete for a contract that could be worth up to $27 million. The firm selected will manufacture between 4,476 and 6,500 rifles.
The three companies are:
• FN Herstal of Herstal, Belgium.
• Heckler and Koch Defense of Ashburn, Va.
• Colt Defense of West Hartford, Conn.
Colt received two contracts because it has two candidate weapons sufficiently different to warrant separate evaluations, according to SysCom.
Corps moves to replace M249 - Marine Corps News, news from Iraq - Marine Corps Times
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