Army infantry officer calls new XM7 'unfit for use as a modern service rifle'

Army infantry officer calls new XM7 'unfit for use as a modern service rifle'

The officer interviewed more than 150 soldiers as part of his research, which was presented at an annual Marine Corps exhibition in April.

In 2022, the US Army finally managed to choose a successor to the M4 assault rifle, which had been in service since the mid-1980s. It was the German gunner SIG Sauer who won this competition at more than $5 billion, in order to deliver more than 111,000 XM7 assault rifles, derived from his MCX-Spear model, as well as 13,000 machine guns [...]