The War on Terror's iconic FN SCAR is dead

The War on Terror's iconic FN SCAR is dead

Anyone who played a military first-person shooter video game in the late 2000s/early 2010s is familiar with the Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle, more commonly referred to as the SCAR (SOFCAR didn’t sound as cool). Developed by FN, the rifle was selected by U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in both 5.56 NATO and 7.62 NATO as the Mk 16 SCAR-L (Light) and Mk 17 SCAR-H (Heavy), respectively. A mere 15 years later, FN announced t…