SOCOM cancels SCAR 16S purchase

[B52U]

http://www.military.com/news/article...new-rifle.html

Looks like they will be buying the 17's but not the 16's. Not a big enough advantage over the M4 to justify the budget according to the article.

[1stidvet]

^^^ KING OF BATTLE!! maybe all the FA units should receive the SCAR L's..

[prefetch]

Looks like they will be buying the 17's but not the 16's. Not a big enough advantage over the M4 to justify the budget according to the article.

um...thanks for the news, but it's really old news. that article you posted is 2 months old.

the most recent update on this is from two weeks ago: http://kitup.military.com/?s=scar&x=0&y=0 - but not much has changed, just a confirmation on the Mk 16 cancellation.

[djv38]

http://www.fnhusa.com/mil/press/detail.asp?id=92

seems to beg to differ. We'll see.

[spartanranger]

What is interesting in this whole situation is that SOCOM has kept the rifle that did not complete their testing program. From what I understand, only the 16 went through the competition trials. I figure at some point someone is going to challenge the 17 based on those grounds.

[Kalmar]

http://www.military.com/news/article/spec-ops-command-cancels-new-rifle.html

Looks like they will be buying the 17's but not the 16's. Not a big enough advantage over the M4 to justify the budget according to the article.

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[Tango082]

^^^ KING OF BATTLE!!

A'r bo'rne infantry!

(Sorry as a cadet I was addicted to jodies.. pretty common)




It really doesn't seem too practical to replace the M4 to me anyway. I mean the system isn't even 20 years old and, although I am not up to date on such things, I haven't heard of many issues with it recently I don't know if you guys have? The M16.. yeah replace that.. and the older squad automatics.. yeah I can understand that too.

[B52U]

Looks like they will be buying the 17's but not the 16's. Not a big enough advantage over the M4 to justify the budget according to the article.

um...thanks for the news, but it's really old news. that article you posted is 2 months old.

the most recent update on this is from two weeks ago: http://kitup.military.com/?s=scar&x=0&y=0 - but not much has changed, just a confirmation on the Mk 16 cancellation.

Sheesh, sorry to waste your time or offend your insight into current events. I saw some rehashed discussion on this on Defense Tech about how FN was supposedly refuting the claims of this original article. I tried to find it, but only found the original article. I hadn't seen any discussion on this topic here in this forum so I thought I would start one just based on my own interest in the subject.

[B52U]

^^^ KING OF BATTLE!! maybe all the FA units should receive the SCAR L's..

I wear the 1st ID combat patch proudly! My unit was attached to 1/4th Cav (Anvil troop) at FOB McKenzie, Iraq, 2005. Good memories of a great unit.

[SgtStrykerUSMC43]

Looks like they will be buying the 17's but not the 16's. Not a big enough advantage over the M4 to justify the budget according to the article.

um...thanks for the news, but it's really old news. that article you posted is 2 months old.

the most recent update on this is from two weeks ago: http://kitup.military.com/?s=scar&x=0&y=0 - but not much has changed, just a confirmation on the Mk 16 cancellation.

Sheesh, sorry to waste your time or offend your insight into current events. I saw some rehashed discussion on this on Defense Tech about how FN was supposedly refuting the claims of this original article. I tried to find it, but only found the original article. I hadn't seen any discussion on this topic here in this forum so I thought I would start one just based on my own interest in the subject.

Don't sweat it B52U. I, as well as other members have done the same and nobody was being a wise-ass. It's always more in line with razzin'.

If it were anything else but a bit of razzin' I'd have stepped, handed out some negs in and locked it down.

Carry on Gents.