The Army plans to have initial prototypes of the new lightweight. The M2A1 is also built to be more reliable that the standard M2 the M2 barrel extension can last up to roughly 25,000 rounds, whereas the M2A1 barrel extension can fire as many as 80,000 rounds, Alessio said. The improved M2A1 is, among other things, engineered with what is called "fixed head space and timing" designed to better prevent the machine gun from jamming, misfiring, or causing soldier injury, officials said.
50-caliber weapons designed with numerous improved features. The Army now operates 24,000 standard M2 machine guns and roughly 25,000 upgraded M2A1.
50 cal vendors will have to "build to print" and execute the government's existing specs, Battista said. The Army owns what is called the Technical Data Package, or TDP, for the new lightweight. It works against anything that does not have thick armor." "Any time you get into an up-armored (more armor) situation or reactive armor - it is not going to be very effective. Keith Muehling, assistant product manager for crew-served weapons, told Scout Warrior in an interview. "It can be used for antipersonnel (enemy fighters) and also against lightly armored vehicles and light unarmored vehicles," Maj. Several variants of the machine gun can fire more than 500 rounds a minute. 50 cal is effective in a wide variety of circumstances, such as convoy protection, air attacks, and attacks upon small groups of enemies on foot or moving in small vehicles. The gun can also be mounted on a tripod on the ground by infantry in a firefight or combat circumstance the M2 has a solid range and can fire at point targets up to 1,500 meters away and destroy area targets at distances up to 1,800 meters. The machine gun is used on Humvees, tactical trucks, M1 Abrams tanks, Strykers, some Navy ships, and several aircraft such as CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopters and UH-60 Black Hawks. "When enemies hear the sound of the gun, they tend to run in the other direction," Battista said. 50 cal along with an explosive "area weapon" effect of a grenade launcher. The details of how this will be accomplished have not yet emerged, though the planning is to engineer a weapon that has the attack and suppressive fire ability of a. It is reasonable, however, to assume that requirements, designs, and then prototypes could emerge in the next few years. The effort is still very much in the early or conceptual phases, though future engineering and requirements initiatives plan to give shape, contours, and direction to the new weapon as a result, Army officials did not yet specify a time frame as to when this might be operational.
"This will be one weapon with a totally different new type of ammo that is not yet even in the developmental phase," Laura Battista, product management engineer, told Scout Warrior in an interview. The idea is to simultaneously lighten the load of mobile attack forces while increasing their lethality and envelope of attack with a single system that achieves the offensive firepower, and desired combat effects, of both weapons.
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