Magazines are 30 round STANAG magazine, which are interchangeable with the M16 and M4 magazines carried by the rest of a fire team. The standard scope for the M27 is the SU-258/PVQ Squad Day Optic. A Harris fold-down bipod provides stability in the suppression role while a fore grip allows for better handling in CQB scenarios. Picatinny rails surround the M27's free-floating 16.5inch barrel on which a number of accessories come fitted as standard. The M27 is also easier to handle in close quarters combat environments and a M27 gunner can easily transition from laying down suppression fire to clearing a building. Weighing in at 9lb (loaded) compared to the 22lb (loaded) for the M249 SAW, the M27 is light enough to allow its operator to keep up with the rest of his fire team / squad, something that was an issue for SAW gunners. This doctrine has now been updated to favor a more accurate, slower firing weapon that suppresses the enemy through rapid, well-aimed fire, an approach thought to be more effective against seasoned enemy troops. The commonly held wisdom was that the high rate of fire would keep the enemy's head down, even if round placement was relatively inaccurate, especially at longer ranges. The M249 had a much higher rate of fire and was fed from higher capacity magazines compared to the M27. Previous doctrine was to use the M249 SAW in the suppressing fire role. to provide suppressing fire as part of a 4-man fire team. The USMC employs the M27 as a designated automatic rifleman's weapon i.e. Delta Force and DEVGRU reportedly both use the HK416 as an assault rifle/carbine. The M27 is based on the Heckler & Koch HK416 D16.5RS assault rifle. The M27 will replace many of the M249 SAW belt-fed light machine guns currently employed at the squad level. The M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR) is a 5.56mmx45mm rifle that used by United States Marine Corps (USMC) forces. That's really what excites me about these two systems as we saw them go through testing."īurris also said that in addition to improved accuracy, the new system also provides greater energy on the target.▼ share this page M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle It reduces aim error, and it's a game changer. John Ready, an M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle gunner for Company E., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marines Expeditionary Unit, provides security as an. "It's a significant change: the way it fires, the way, when you apply the fire control - which was previously awarded back in January - when you apply that to these weapons systems, it improves or increases the probability of a for the individual soldier. Scott Madore, the project manager for soldier lethality, said. "The capability increase that these weapons provide over the M4 and the M249 is what's really exciting," Army Col. When the time comes, Boruff said, the Army will have enough of the new ammunition to begin fielding the new rifles. We're clearing some space now at the Lake City facility to start production." The M27 IAR is based on the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle, a lightweight, magazine-fed 5.56mm LMG variant of the HK416 used by the United States Marine Corps.
"The new building will be stood up in Lake City Army Ammunition Plant and it will start producing around 25/26. "We already have started preparing the site for the new building," Boruff said. After that, SIG Sauer will become a second-source provider of the new ammunition. Boruff, the program executive officer in the Joint Program Executive Office, Armaments and Ammunition, said the new 6.8 mm ammunition will initially be produced by SIG Sauer, but that the Army will eventually take over production of ammunition at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri. That's what drives the fielding of the weapons."Īrmy Brig. "As the vendor is able to produce ammunition and then Lake City ultimately comes on, what we don't want to do is field a capability to a unit where we don't have training ammunition or contingency ammunition, if required. "The fielding of the weapon is based upon ammunition production," Burris said. Soldiers involved in close-quarters combat include 11B infantrymen, 19D cavalry scouts,12B combat engineers, 68W medics, and 13F forward observers. It's expected that the first unit of soldiers involved in close-quarters combat will be equipped with the new system in the fourth quarter of 2023, Burris said. Burris said the Army was able to do in 27 months what might otherwise have taken anywhere from eight to 10 years.
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