Army Captain Claims New XM7 Rifle Is Inferior to Old M4A1

Army Captain Claims New XM7 Rifle Is Inferior to Old M4A1

A US Army Captain, Braden Trent, recently ignited a "firestorm" by presenting research highly critical of the new SIG Sauer XM7 rifle, the M4A1's replacement under the Next Generation Squad Weapon program.

Military personnel from the Third Cavalry Brigade that has Tacna as its base have been supplied with part of the 10,000 ARAD-7 rifles recently acquired by the Peruvian Army. “It is an advance of the military industry because they are assembled in Peru and the Tacna Brigade has been one of the first to be supplied with this modern rifle,” confirmed yesterday the commander general of the Third Cavalry Brigade, Brigadier General EP Luis Díaz Parede…