Facing evolving threats, the U.S. military introduced the XM7 rifle and XM250 machine gun under the Next Generation Squad ...

The SIG Sauer M250 is the Army admitting that the next fight is farther out, tougher targets are the baseline, and the squad needs a belt-fed gun that brings real overmatch instead of hoping 5.56 and ...

Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...

Two decades of post-9/11 conflict reshaped the U.S. military from the squad level up. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ...

Louisiana Army National Guard’s Staff Sgt. Logan Meaux, a Maurice, Louisiana native, sheriff’s deputy, and an infantry weapons squad leader with Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment ...

The new infantry squad vehicle can haul troops through pretty much any terrain in any conditions, but there’s a couple big things it can’t do: protect soldiers from an ambush or allow someone to ...

National Guard soldiers tested the M250 light machine gun during a “New Equipment Training” (NET) event at Camp Ripley, Minnesota. Whether National Guard personnel will continue to be deployed to curb ...

The Army is preparing to replace its long-serving M240B machine gun, launching a multibillion-dollar program to field a next-generation automatic weapon for frontline troops, according to newly ...

Soldiers load into an Infantry Squad Vehicle during a live fire exercise in Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. (Kevin Sterling Payne/U.S. Army) Over the next two years, the U.S. Army will convert 25 ...