Welcome to What’s Next In War, a special issue where Task & Purpose breaks down what’s on the horizon for the U.S. military. After nearly five years of development, the Army could be just weeks away ...

The Army has found its replacements for the M4 rifle and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, handing out a contract to put new guns in the hands of tens of thousands of soldiers. The force is awarding a ...

Sig Sauer has been picked by the Army to make replacements for the service's aging M4 rifle and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, but it will likely take nearly a decade for units to start seeing the new ...

After decades of service, the M4 carbine’s reign as the U.S. military’s standard rifle may be coming to an end The SIG Sauer XM7 and its companion, the XM250 light machine gun are set to take over as ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In choosing a new carbine, the U.S. Army must navigate a maze of requirements, prioritizing them and likely leave some of them unfulfilled in order to field a rifle.

Key Point: Rifles are the next step in modernization for near-peer conflict. To paraphrase the legendary military theorist Carl von Clausewitz: Everything in small arms is simple, but the simplest ...

One lightweight weapon quietly changed how soldiers fight. First tested in the late 1990s, the M4 carbine introduced modular rails and easy upgrades that transformed close-quarters warfare. This ...

Next month the U.S. Army will kick off a two-year competition for a contract to supply 70,000-100,000 new carbine rifles to replace the M4. Late last month the Army hosted an industry day to answer ...