The Army has initiated an expansive study to identify a potential replacement for the M240 machine gun in soldier arsenals, officials announced on Thursday. The Army is currently conducting a ...

Sig Sauer is hoping to snag the Defense Department’s contract for a new machine gun with the SLMG, the Sig Sauer Lightweight Machine Gun, which was unveiled this week at the Shooting, Hunting ...

The .338 NM machine gun is lighter than the current M240 in 7.62mm but can shoot with some of the same effects as the .50 caliber, a much heavier platform.

U.S. Army maneuver officials are testing a new sound suppressor that can quiet the M240 machine gun enough for gunners to easily hear fire commands. The Maneuver Battle Lab at Fort Benning ...

All branches of the U.S. Armed Forces still use the heavy machine gun, which has remained largely unchanged in both appearance and function since World War I.

The Army secretary has promised to show Congress the analysis behind its transformation plans within the next 10 days.

The new M7 rifle and M250 machine gun are designed to give U.S. soldiers the upper hand in the global shooting match.

Consisting of a 7.62-mm M240 machine gun mounted on a specially designed rotating turret outfitted with an electro-optical sensor, proprietary AI, and computer vision software, the Bullfrog was ...

For more specialized roles, the U.S. Army employs the M240 machine gun. This firearm is chambered for the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge and serves as a medium machine gun.

Soldiers with 4th Infantry Division fire the M240 machine gun during a training at Fort Carson, Colo., on April 19, 2023. (Capt. Tobias Cukale/U.S. Army) TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. special operations ...

The “switch-barrel” conversion kit allows existing M240 machine guns initially chambered for the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge to convert to True Velocity’s advanced 6.8TVCM composite-cased ...

Traditionally speaking, any HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter can carry two guns. They come as any combination between the GAU-2C 7.62 mm minigun, the GAU 18/A .50 caliber machine gun, or the M240 ...