XM7 & XM250 NGSW | U.S. Army's New Service Rifle & Machinegun Live Fire Demonstration

Carbon build-up in the suppressor would be my guess. Another cleaning issue like we had with the M-16. You'll be soaking them in varsol out at Whitesands. Lol

Por más que veo las nuevas armas no le veo futuro a este proyecto...

The M250 looks good. I'm sure it'll replace the M240B nicely. The M7, not so much as an M4 replacement. I see it more of a DMR and would excel at that role. The Spear LT seems better suited as an all-around M4 replacement. From what we've been shown (not much at that) is that XM157? smart optic being the real gamechanger.

why would you put a suppressor on any bullet that goes way over the threshold of the speed of sound.

is that a C-RAM in the background at the start? 😅

This is a bad idea. These guns are going to be a whole lot heavier when you’re loaded down with full gear in the field. Not to mention unnecessarily overpowered. We moved away from heavy battle rifles and full sized ammo for a very good reason. Just adopt the MCX Spear LT but convert it to 6.8 Wolverine and make a belt-fed upper for it.

There will be a lot of problems with these two systems. Parts breaking and excessive maintenance and repair cycles. It's a fragile build weapon system. It will be the modern era M14.

Another one of the platforms dreamed up the the BRASS. Idiots that don't go into combat. Logistics are how wars are won (period) and this NEW round sucks. AMO depots around the world are now going to have to stock up.

I have recently revisited the topic of the XM7 again and had some thoughts.

*The rifle itself is well engineered for the most part, two charging handles is a bit weird, and the folding stock not locking when folded is odd but whatever.
*The XM7 is quite front heavy, heavy barrel, plus suppressor, plus extra weight, plus kit on the front. Doesn't seem fun to use.
*The Barrel is 13" which is bloody short, it's very inefficient. It's quite wasteful. You have dropped a lot of potential velocity from the round you are firing by giving it so much less barrel length. Hence why a 80k PSI, spicy round is felt to be needed.
*Related to above point, there is adversity to increasing the length of the weapon. This isn't unfounded or unreasonable, Long weapons are less suitable for mounted troops and urban fighting like room clearing.
* I feel the whole thing may be an over learned lesson from Afghanistan, since the US went into some pretty long range fighting with some pretty short barrels.

Onto what I think are some issues and possible solutions:
*Training is being done by using a normal brass cartridge, which must obviously not be the full 80k psi round with the Steel and Aluminum reinforcement. This is because the spicy round would be rough as guts on the gun. It's also far more expensive and less available.
***The problem here should be obvious to most people: If soldiers are being trained on a round with different ballistic properties, and different much lighter felt recoil, then handed out the Spicy "Combat Round" when deployed which feels different (Harsher recoil) and acts differently (Different ballistics). Then that's going to cause a lot of problems. Alongside some of the other issues related to ammo capacity and fire superiority you now have troops being issued a round they have no, or limited experience with.

Imagine training everyone on SCAR-L then only giving them SCAR-H in combat. There would be problems.

Now, maybe you get some range time on the spicy round during training, but the average soldier only has so much range time so you're undercutting the value of the training by using the lighter training round.
But, you cant use the spicy round, because it costs too much and is too rough on the rifle. So I suspect what will happen is that the "Training" round will be the normally issued round until such time as the spicy is considered needed because someone made new body armour.
Or possibly a third round, a Carbide tipped version of the "Training round" becomes standard issue to defeat body armour

Now, I don't have a real practical solution to the issues of the XM7 because the decision has been made and that's locked in a lot of issues that are only going to be solved by throwing money at things.
Beyond extending the barrels and using the "Training round." I don't know what you could do.

What I would have done.
I would of adopted a bullpup with around a full 20" barrel. I know some people in america have an aversion to Bullpups but The French, UK and Australia have or had Bullpups with barrels of around that length, that were shorter overall weapons than the XM7. These weapons have worked well for decades. Obviously the British had some initial issues, but those were solved decades ago.
The only outstanding issue with a bullpup weapon is the shell ejection. Which multiple example have solved to one degree or another. Depending on how radical you want to be.
A 20" bullpup means increased barrel length which means higher velocities out of lighter rounds, from a barrel that is starting to approach twice the length of the XM7. Or if you want the 6.8mm it means getting much better performance without feeling the need for the 80k spicy round.
Whichever way you cut it the performance will be better out of a more compact bullpup.

I'm curious to see what the ADF does. I know Thales has made a 6.8mm Steyr for assessment. If we do make the jump to 6.8mm for some reason then i hope we go with that, over the SIG XM7 and I hope we use the normal Brass rounds instead of that hybrid Steel/Aluminum/Brass case thing.

In those clips that the mg338 witch is bigger and more powerful than the xm250

Keep the m250 machine gun. The xm7 rifle is just to heavy and too much recoil

Its too big and long pause😂

Badass

massive scope

Thanks you made in germany !

silencer/flash hider doubles as a blow touch and flash light

The army loves wasting tax payers money.

Imagine doing MOUT or rucking that all day. Yeah it's gonna suck . I think these won't be that liked by soldiers all that much.

Anyone with a semblance of basic common sense can see this rifle is utterly worthless


Cool bullet technology

Bad design and nothing of value to offer at all

The reason they're implementing heavier rifles with higher penetration capabilities is due to the changed nature of war. WW3 will look nothing like Iraq, Syria, or Afghanistan. Drone technology, AI robotics, and hiding in buildings is the new strategy for many militaries, and this rifle seeks to counter those strategies for the infantry.

I have a feeling this is going to end up like the FBI’s 10mm…. The FBI complained 9mm was too weak and wanted much more powerful round so the 10mm was developed and most of the agents could not handle the recoil so it was phased out and 30 years later they’re still back to the 9mm lol

Kicks like the 1977, M14 rifle. Recoil killed that program

Wessss Approve “Lightning” “Thundåå” 🏴🏴

Luckily, whoever approved this in the Military is a lot smarter than the people commenting on it.
CQB is basically over.
Drones have completely changed the way war will be fought and improved body armor has made the 5.56 even more useless than it was from the outset.

Personally, I think the infantry should go with a .300 WinMag. Something like the OMEN Watchman. If a soldier can't handle the recoil, they can just transfer to the Air Force.

The SCAR-H is a better platform. It is also not as heavy. It also doesn't have the magazine fit issue.

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More I see those videos more i love marines using classic KAC nt4 sups :DDD

Please I would like all this equipment for army of côte d'Ivoire

Please I would like all this equipment for army of côte d'Ivoire

Please I would like all this equipment for army of côte d'Ivoire

These rifles will turn big rock into little rock

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I'd rather have one of those LSAT program caseless rifles any day of the week.

Is the XM7 well balanced to shoot standing accurate ?

beautiful machine gun

Love people talking about M4 I shouldn’t be replaced but the whole new program is meant to defeat, new body armor and future body armor like it or not but the truth is 556 is going outdated in the modern military we need a new fighting rifle

I got to go to an sig event and got to test these out and all I can say is I wished I had these when I was deployed.

Recoil is gonna suck a bit, but that’s were changing the stock would make things better.

That rifle is beating the crap out of their shoulders. The recoil is crazy. The average built soldier is going to have trouble handling this weapon. With all the extras that is going to be also one heavy weapon.

Not sure but it seems theyre going to go with 20 round mags. So a great longer range cartridge but you only get 2/3 of the previous rounds. Also $12 a round that is unbelievable. I read somewhere that the US Armed Forces used 230 million rounds last year (training) so that means 2.7 Bill assuming they were all the new caliber.

The suppressors will burn out very quickly on full auto.
As you can see, the flames are coming out of the end it.
Contracting with Sig Sauer is a big mistake.
Who were the other contractors competing for the contract?
Hegseth needs to step in and stop this before it starts.

Again the battle rifle, I think those weapons are not suitable for urban warfare, which is today's battlefield, too bulky.

Been waiting long time to see this day come🎉🎉🎉🎉

Bad idea

It's not a good idea the soldiers look confused

I like it, but they need to fix its problems .

It’s a SIG
Don’t drop it………..😮