The Army's New Machine Gun Can Really Do Some Serious Damage

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April 28, 2019

The Army's New Machine Gun Can Really Do Some Serious Damage

Here is what we can tell you.
by War Is Boring

A game changer or not?

The U.S. Army has selected a new submachine gun for special security missions- and the winner of the procurement contest may surprise you.

The Brügger & Thomet APC9K has been hailed the winner of the Sub Compact Weapon program, beating out well-seasoned military & police competitors such as the American Sig MPX and the Czech-made CZ Scorpion Evo.

Made primarily of polymer and sporting translucent magazines, the APC9K SCW will be used for close protection duties and other situations where a 9mm submachine gun or carbine would be preferable to a 5.56 platform.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/armys-new-machine-gun-can-really-do-some-serious-damage-54672

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Army Picks B&T for New Sub Compact Weapon Contract

04/2/19 6:00 AM | by Chris Eger

https://www.guns.com/news/2019/04/02/army-picks-bt-for-new-sub-compact-weapon-contract

In a small contract with big bragging rights, B&T USA will provide their APC9K sub guns to the U.S. Army to arm the military’s Personal Security Details.

The Tampa-based subsidiary of the Swiss Brugger & Thomet company was one of six companies last September who submitted designs to the Army for what the service termed “Sub Compact Weapons.” These guns, “capable of engaging threat personnel with a high volume of lethal and accurate fires at close range with minimal collateral damage,” were to be used by the special teams tasked with protecting high-value officers and dignitaries such as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe the commander of U.S. Forces Korea.

In the end, the contract awarded on Monday was worth just $2.5 million for 350 SCWs, with an option for up to 1,000 of the weapons. However, B&T beat out a field of big names in the gun world such as Sig Sauer, whose Copperhead was seen as a forerunner of what the company had submitted to the Army’s SCW tender. The military originally courted a baker’s dozen gun makers to submit designs last year, including Angstadt, Colt, CMMG, CZ, Heckler & Koch, Lewis Machine & Tool, Noveske, PTR, Quarter Circle, and Zenith Firearms — the literal A-to-Z in compact guns.

Details on the APC9K are slim. Austria’s counter-terror unit, EKO Cobra, uses a similar version of the gun which they list with a slightly longer barrel as being 15.9-inches overall. The standard APC9 is a 9mm blowback action three-position select-fire SMG that fires from a closed bolt at a cyclic rate of 1,080 rounds-per-minute.

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I do like the fact that it fires from a closed bolt.