Army photo by Pfc. Luis Garcia. For decades, the U.S. military’s M240 medium machine gun has proven its worth, but now the Army is looking for something new.

The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.

The Bullfrog consists of proprietary AI, computer vision software, and an electro-optical sensor embedded into a 7.62-mm M240 machine gun mounted on a rotating turret.

Soldiers with 4th Infantry Division fire the M240 machine gun during a training at Fort Carson, Colo., on April 19, 2023. (Capt. Tobias Cukale/U.S. Army) TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. special operations ...

These .50-caliber rounds were waiting to be fired Tuesday, May 7, 2024, on the new machine gun range at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center.

Weapon type: General purpose machine gun Year entered service: 1977 Country of origin: United States Manufacturer: FN Manufacturing Caliber of ammunition and feed: 7.62x51mm NATO, Disintegrating ...

"If someone had told me, 'Hey, we'll give you all these drones, and you've got to give up your .50-caliber and M240 machine guns,' I would have told them they're crazy," Gian Gentile, a researcher ...

The M240 proved to be a far more reliable machine gun than the M60, Goodrow told Task & Purpose on Thursday. In the pantheon of Army crew-served medium machine guns, the M240 is certainly among ...