Sig Sauer Shows off Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon Submission
Sig Sauer feels they have a dominating submission to the Army s futuristic new Next Generation Squad Weapons program. Designed to replace 5.56 NATO caliber small arms – M4 series carbines and M249 Squad Automatic Weapons – in frontline use with new platforms sharing a common 6.8mm cartridge, the NGSW program has been underway since 2018. Currently, Sig Sauer is one of three teams, along with Maryland-based AAI Corporation/Textron Systems and Vermont-based General Dynamics-Ordnance & Tactical Systems, vying for the contract. The stakes are huge, with the NGSW platform being the largest shift in small arms by Western forces thus far in the 21st Century.
SIG SAUER CEO Ron Cohen Highlights U.S. Army Next Generation Squad Weapons Program Ammoland Inc. Posted on
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- SIG SAUER, Inc. is proud to release an exclusive video featuring President & CEO, Ron Cohen highlighting the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) Program. The NGSW Program is a historic undertaking by the U.S. Army to develop weapons that will enhance squad-level lethality and is inclusive of a lightweight belt-fed machine gun (NGSW-AR), a rifle (NGSW-R), 6.8×51 hybrid ammunition, and suppressors.
“The Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons program is the most audacious effort in decades. It is the ability to participate in writing history and whatever happens now will dictate the next twenty, thirty, forty years” began Cohen.