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Soldiers Give the Army's New Rifle Optic Low Ratings
« on: February 05, 2025, 01:30:16 pm »
Soldiers Give the Army's New Rifle Optic Low Ratings
 
Military.com | By Jared Keller
Published February 04, 2025 at 11:18am ET

The Army has officially fielded its brand-new rifles to soldiers, but the service is apparently still working out the kinks with the systems' advanced optic, according to a new assessment from the Defense Department's top weapons tester.

The fiscal 2024 report on the Army's Next-Generation Squad Weapon program from the Pentagon's Director, Operational Test and Evaluation published last week indicates that the XM157 Fire Control smart scope that's intended to augment the program's XM7 Next Generation Rifle and XM250 Next Generation Automatic Rifle received negative ratings from soldiers during testing last year.
 
While the report doesn't contain specific feedback on the XM7 or XM250 rifles, which were developed by gunmaker Sig Sauer to replace the M4 carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in the Army's arsenal, it clearly states that soldiers "assessed the usability of the XM157 as below average/failing."
 
"The XM7 with mounted XM157 demonstrated a low probability of completing one 72-hour wartime mission without incurring a critical failure," the Operational Test and Evaluation report adds.

However, the report wasn't entirely negative: The assessment concluded that the specialized 6.8mm ammo for the XM7 and XM250 does, in fact, "provide increased lethality" over the legacy 5.56mm M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round used in the M4 and M249.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/04/armys-new-rifles-have-optic-problem.html
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Re: Soldiers Give the Army's New Rifle Optic Low Ratings
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2025, 01:31:07 pm »
Come on now, the woke generals said it's good enough! *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: Soldiers Give the Army's New Rifle Optic Low Ratings
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2025, 03:21:25 pm »
$1.50 to $2.00+ a shot (maybe $1.00 in bulk range fodder).... not sure how many soldiers feel like leaving the army with their service rifle at that price.

With all the electronic communicating back and forth, seems like the command wants to live the front line without being there. It gets so tech (Night Vision or Thermal coupling) that I imagine that the common soldier feels like they are flying a blackhawk chopper on the side.

I imagine it gets complicated and buggy cause electronics seem to lag in some ways. Not sure about the battery life and all that... Not my area of expertise. More yall's game to be honest.

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Re: Soldiers Give the Army's New Rifle Optic Low Ratings
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2025, 05:39:24 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on February 05, 2025, 01:31:07 pm
Come on now, the woke generals said it's good enough! *****rollingeyes*****

More military procurement corruption and graft nonsense...the Armed Services can get exactly what the troops need at local gun stores of Cabelas or Bass Pro Shops or any number of online civilian suppliers like Brownell's or Optic Planet.
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Re: Soldiers Give the Army's New Rifle Optic Low Ratings
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2025, 06:43:52 pm »
If it's a DEI scope, it won't see enemies or colors.
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