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| Tango01 | 08 Oct 2026 1:36 p.m. PST |
…in December
"On the factory floor at gun maker Sig Sauer's headquarters, giant shipping pallets of the brand-new M8 Next Generation Squad Weapon rifle sit shrink-wrapped on shelves, ready for dispatch to soldiers.
Fielding of the M8 carbine, which appears set to replace Sig Sauer's M7 as the Army's standard rifle less than three years after the M7's initial fielding began, will begin in December with some units at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, company executives confirmed to Military Times Monday. The NGSW new weapons rollout also includes Sig's M250 machine gun, which will replace the aging M249 Squad Automatic Weapon and is expected to reach troops in the first half of next year, said Dave Buehler, the company's vice president of manufacturing…"
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