The Marine Corps May Finally Get a New Sniper Rifle—Just Not the One They Need
And that could be a big problem.
Task and Purpose [2]Jared Keller [3]
The Marine Corps is throwing down cash to test-drive the same compact sniper rifle the Army has pursued in recent months. But while its 7.62mm rounds pack the punch required by scout snipers facing increasingly protected [4] enemies downrange, its effective range falls well short of the sniper systems used by both foreign militaries and militants — a limitation that makes it unclear just what the Corps could do with this new weapon.
The Army’s proposed fiscal 2019 budget includes [5] $46.2 million to field 5,180 M110A1 Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper System (CSASS) rifles for infantry, scout, and engineer squads, with the goal of eventually buying [6] as many as 8,711 of the lightweight 7.62mm arms. PEO Soldier told [7] Task & Purpose in January 2018 that the Marine Corps also was “committed†to adopting the CSASS.
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