SOCOM Light Weight Machine Gun Needs
BY Herschel Smith3 years, 1 month ago
SOFWERX and USSOCOM PEO-SOF Warrior are hosting a Virtual Industry Day to discuss current and future Lightweight Machine Gun-Medium needs for the SOF Operator. Learn more, and request to attend, at https://t.co/260WyblsXy. #SOFWERX #LMGM #MachineGun #OperationalNeeds pic.twitter.com/hA615rYSnx
— SOFWERX (@SOFWERX) January 20, 2021
Of course I don’t know the future, but here’s a prediction. Feel free to remind me of this post if I turn out to be wrong (I hope I’m wrong).
Any future winner of machine gun contracts with SOCOM will be foreign, not U.S. manufacturing.
One thing the ban on machine guns fabricated after 1968 has done is stop development in open bolt weapon systems in the U.S.
With FN the manufacturer was at least connected to American intellectual abilities with John Moses Browning. Now with the worship of Sig, H&K and others, I suspect the die is cast.
On February 3, 2021 at 12:14 am, IndispensableDestiny said:
Sig Sauer is now more US than German. The SIG MG 338 machine gun fires from an open bolt and is manufactured in the US. General Dynamics is touting a “Lightweight Medium Machine Gun” too.
On February 3, 2021 at 6:25 am, Brad said:
These guys will be there.
http://www.usord.com/
On February 3, 2021 at 10:16 am, ragman said:
CZ is in the process of buying Colt so they will probably be a contender too. I don’t own any of their products but I understand they build excellent firearms.
On February 3, 2021 at 10:20 am, Longbow said:
It was May of 1986.
On February 3, 2021 at 10:24 am, Herschel Smith said:
Ah, I see I fat-fingered numbers late at night. I’ll leave it as is. I don’t try to hide my mistakes.
On February 3, 2021 at 2:04 pm, John said:
I am of the opinion that today’s LMG designs are pretty mature and are basically all
variations on a theme. Some minor improvements and design tweaks are about all
that is left to do until there are radical changes in metalurgy or ammunition.