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After two weeks of instruction and one week of testing March 8 to 26 at Fort Jackson, S.C., three Maneuver Support Center of Excellence drill sergeants successfully demonstrated their knowledge of warrior tasks and battle drills.

6.8 TVCM composite-cased cartridges. (Photo: True Velocity) Texas-based companies team up to design and produce solutions for US Army force modernisation programmes. Texas-based Lonestar Future Weapons on 12 April announced a strategic partnership with composite-cased ammunition manufacturer True Velocity, as part of a bid for the US Army Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) programme. The US Army aims for NGSW to replace its M4/M16 5.56x45mm rifle and the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) wi...

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Right now, top Army officials are evaluating three finalists for an initial contract of about 100,000 weapons as part of their Next Generation Squad Weapons program. Compared with its main international rival, the equally storied Russian AK-47, the M-4 has long been considered a more accurate but more prickly firearm, an “excellent weapon if you can maintain it,” as one defense publication once put it. The Army’s modernization strategy considers the Next Generation Squad Weapons program a...

US Marines Corps/Lance Cpl. Kolby Leger Marines and soldiers can expect to field an array of new weapons and gear in 2021. With the end of 2020 fast approaching, its officially that wonderful time of the year when we can stop, take stock of our lives, and look ahead to what 2021 holds for us — and in the case of US military personnel in close combat roles, its a slew of new weapons and gear for a boost in delicious, delicious lethality. Heres a look ahead at some...

And -- and they began finding gun parts. >> reporter: gun parts. some very specific gun parts that appeared to match the type of automatic weapon used in the mclelland killings. and at the same time, the fbi discovered williams had done computer searches on hasse and mclelland before the murders. >> specifically told them that he had not ever searched the two victims before the murders. >> now youve got him lying? >> yeah. >> reporter: that lie and those gun parts were enough to get a warrant fo...

Synagogue, and he said he was just a few meters from the synagogue and saw a man dressed in camouflage clothing wearing what this witness describes as a steel helmet. the man was holding an automatic weapon. he said he didnt hear shots, but that he could see somebody lying in the street very close to this man in camouflage clothing. and then he said he saw the assailant throwing grenades over the wall into the synagogue. now this wall, we understand, is about 2 1/2 meters, about 8 feet high. the...

Jewish high holiday of yom kippur. nic robertson has been following the story. they peers to be a brazen and deadly attack. >> it is. a rampage is how the city is describing it. and we now are able to take a look at that video of what appears to be the gunman and i say it appears to be the gunman in this case because several eyewitnesses that weve heard from now have identified the clothing and the helmet they say he was wearing. we can see it here. this camouflage-type green jacket. a metal hel...

Doesnt explode and then the gunman raises his weapon and shoots through the window of the store. what we now know is one person inside that store, that kebab shob where people are buying lunch is dead. one person outside the synagogue is dead. the police have apprehended a gunman. weve seen the video there. the gunman gets out of his vehicle, a gray vehicle in the middle of a deserted street wearing what appears to be a camouflage top. he moves to the other side, fires the weapon again. a lot of...

20 there outside of odessa, he was shooting at individuals, and there are people who believe that he was reloading and shooting at them. so, and when you look at the fact that there were 19 that are injured now and at least 7 dead, that tells me that the person was possibly armed with an automatic weapon. leland: yeah. the texas department of public safety said that it was a rifle of some sort, though did not describe exactly what kind. the mayor of to december is -- odessa called this guy a cow...