The main difference between the M27 and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, however, is accuracy. The M249 is first and foremost a machine gun and is accurate to about twelve minutes of angle, meaning rounds ...

The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) announced on Friday that they will be purchasing up to 15,000 M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles (IAR) and spare parts from Heckler and Koch (H&K) in Ashburn, Virginia, under a ...

Last week, the U.S. Marine Corps released a Request for Information to manufacturers enquiring about their capacity to produce 11,000 more M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles. This stoked rumors that the ...

Key point: The M27 might not be as good as thought and is also expensive. For over a half century, the M16 assault rifle—and later the more compact M4 carbine—have served as the primary service rifles ...

The Marine Corps plans to equip more infantrymen with the M27 rifle, which has been in limited use for sometime. The M27 offers longer range and better accuracy than the M4 currently used by Marine ...

The Marine Corps infantry rifle could be seeing an upgrade in the very near future. On Aug. 11, the U.S. Marine Corps issued a Notice of Intent to Sole Source for more than 50,000 new M27 Infantry ...

U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion 8th Marine Regiment fire the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle during a live-fire weapons exercise at range F-18 on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Dec. 8, 2017. (Lance Cpl.

The U.S. Marine Corps plans to purchase more than 50,000 additional M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles (IARs) from the German gun-maker Heckler & Koch, according to a recent solicitation. The service, ...

A U.S. Marine with Headquarters and Service Battalion fires the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle during a live-fire weapons familiarization exercise at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, April 5.

Preliminary results of an Army test to see how the service's M855A1 5.56mm round performs in Marine Corps weapons show that the enhanced performance round causes reliability and durability problems in ...

The standard-issue M4 carbine could be replaced by the M27 infantry automatic rifle. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller said the M27s that have already been deployed are “the most reliable, ...

The U.S. Marine Corps is set to receive a major rifle upgrade and nearly all of its grunts will be wielding the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle in the near future, U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen.