Army ramping up production, issuing of new rifles at a rate that hasn’t been seen since the Vietnam War
The Army has ramped up the production of the replacements for the M4, M249, and M240B rifle/machine guns to be issued to close combat forces. The M4’s replacement, the XM7, is the U.S. Army variant of the SIG MCX Spear, a 6.8×51mm (.277 in), gas-operated, magazine-fed assault rifle. The biggest change is the switch to…