A shortened variant of the M16A2 rifle, the M4 carbine provides the individual ... approximately 6,000 M4A1 Carbines to the 101st Airborne Division by September and plans to field an additional ...

Under the contract, SIG is supplying the Army with the new XM7 rifle and XM250 ... used in the M4. In order to generate this pressure without blowing out the cartridge case, SIG developed a ...

At the event, officials announced a unit in the 101st Airborne Division had received ... magazine-fed, suppressed rifle. The M4 is a carbine version of the original M16 rifle.

The XM7 rifle and the XM250 squad automatic weapon were delivered to squads within the 101st Airborne Division in ... replacing the ubiquitous M4 rifle, whose design dates to the Vietnam-era ...

The Army has officially fielded its Next Generation Squad Weapon, sending the long-anticipated replacements for the M4 carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon to a 101st Airborne Division brigade ...

Soldiers with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell ... weapon for soldiers across the Army and replace the ubiquitous M4 rifle, which has designs originating from M16s used by Vietnam War soldiers.

Marcus Colston squeezed the trigger on his new XM7 rifle and sent ... Army’s standard M4 carbine throughout his four years in uniform. Colston’s unit — the 101st Airborne Division’s ...

This will provide airborne snipers a more compact load during airborne infiltration operations and provide a precision rifle platform more conducive to their combat environment without reducing ...