Posted August 1, 2018 9:00 am by Comments

By Tactical-Life

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In early 2017, Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller said he wanted to equip every 0311 rifleman with the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR). Later that year, the service issued a notice of intent to sole source up to 50,814 M27 IARs from Heckler & Koch. Then, in late April of this year, Marine Corps Systems Command revealed it had entered into a $29.4 million contract with HK for the procurement of up to 15,000 M27 IARs to replace the M249 SAW. Now, however, it appears that Congress is withholding some of the $29.4 million needed to pay for those new rifles.

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