Modular Rifle Champ: What Makes the FN SCAR So Special?

By Chris Eger

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With 21st Century styling, the modular and innovative SCAR series of rifles by FN has proved to be the people’s champ when it comes to modern small arms platforms.
Sprouting from requirements posted in the 2004 Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifles program and the later 2011 U.S. Army Individual Carbine competition, the latter intended to find a successor to the M4 carbine, FN’s SCAR (Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle) system beat out a field of no less than a dozen rivals. Using a short-stroke gas piston system that has proven clean and reliable in use, the series has low recoil, are easy to maintain, and feature increased reliability when compared to traditional AR platforms. As they did not rely on the same buffer-tube required by the AR-pattern rifle, the SCAR can use folding buttstocks
Further, they are adaptive, with users able to change barrels among various lengths in the field.
A SCAR downrange at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan (Photo: U.S. Army)
“They were looking for a modular set of rifles that would share common operating features between a light version, which would be a 5.56, and a heavy version which would be

Source: Guns.com