Army Making Big Push to Update Small Arms
10/28/2022
By Sean Carberry
AUSTIN, Texas — Ukraine has centered attention on drones, artillery, armored tactical vehicles and other heavy platforms and systems. But small arms are a big part of the fight, and the Army is quietly in the process of evaluating and fielding a range of new small arms weapons and related technologies.
The service has several small arms priorities, said Col. Scott Madore, the Army’s product director for soldier lethality. These include developing a weapon to engage targets in defilade, ensuring communication across enablers and weapons, producing effective suppressors that do not require extensive field maintenance, reducing size and weight of weapons and addressing toxic fumes, he said.
“A lot of the products are in production and deployment,” he said at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Future Force Capabilities Conference. Others are in earlier stages of development.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/10/28/army-making-big-push-to-update-small-arms
