U.S. Marines are largely supportive of their commandant's decision to drop the M16 rifle for the M4 carbine as the standard infantry weapon.

When the Army ordered its now standard M4 carbine in 1993 from firearms maker Colt, it saw the rifle as a lighter, more agile alternative to the Vietnam era M16. In 2023, it will begin fielding a ...

From Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, to Escape from Tarkov, to Payday 2, and more, we got Alex Pitts, the Combined Military Services Museum's gun expert to react to the M16 Rifle.

In recent weeks, amid deadly rampages in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton, a shopper on EBay could buy a variety of products designed to make the types of weapons used in those attacks as deadly as ...

The gun used in Dayton has the same core component as an AR-15-style rifle. It also has a 100-bullet magazine. But it's legally considered a pistol.

Now, it is testing advanced equipment, including an AI riffle-holding robot dog, in its efforts to develop solutions for taking down intruder drones.

American ingenuity is an incredible force, particularly on the battlefield. Weapons such as the M16 rifle have been battle-tested and refined to near perfection. Some American weapons, such as the ...

The gun that will replace both the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon and the M16/M4 rifle/carbine weapons — and add a new, widely distributed caliber to the U.S. military inventory for the first time ...

Both the rifle and light machine gun are select-fire systems that are chambered in a new 6.8mm short magnum cartridge that weighs 140 grains and which has a muzzle velocity of 3,200 feet per second.

American ingenuity is an incredible force, and nowhere more so than on the battlefield. Weapons like the M16 rifle have been battle tested and refined to near-perfection. Others like the atomic ...

The XM8 system grew out of the U.S. Army’s XM29 program in search of a successor to the in-service M4, and here is a behind-the-scenes look at Heckler & Koch's configurable system.