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 FN SCAR 1st generation prototype  Caliber:　 5.56 × 45mm NATO / 7.62 × 51mm NATO In November 2004, USSOCOM officially announced that FN USA won the competition for the SCAR project and had awarded FN USA a contract on November 5 to produce the second batch of SCAR prototypes for further testing and evaluation. In mid-2005, the first batch of SCAR rifles officially entered service with US special forces, and future SCAR rifles will also be produced by FNMI . Since USSOCOM uses the naval naming convention, the FN SCAR rifle is now officially designated as the 5.56mm NATO Mark 16 rifle (SCAR-L) and the 7.62mm NATO Mark 17 rifle (SCAR-H) . It is generally believed that Mk.16 and Mk.17 will gradually replace most of the rifle systems currently used by USSOCOM's forces, such as SCAR-L will replace M4A1 , Mk18 , and Mk12 SPR ; and SCAR-H will replace M14/ Mk.14 and Mk.11 . In addition, although the US Army Weapon Research, Development and Engineering Center had been supporting HK De...

 SCAR Overview On October 15, 2003, the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) formally proposed a tender for the Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR). The project required the use of a completely new modular weapon to replace the M16/M4, which could replace three barrel lengths and change calibers in a short time according to different purposes. Since the research work of SCAR was very low-key, and HK and the US Army had made a lot of fanfare to promote many of the performance of the XM8 project, it just happened to coincide with the concept of SCAR. Therefore, many people speculated that if the XM8 was adopted by the US Army, it would also be adopted by the special forces as SCAR. However, when USSOCOM suddenly announced in November 2004 that FN won the competition for SCAR, it showed that the SCAR project was not affected by the XM8 project at all. According to the concept, there will be two main types of SCAR, one is the light SCAR (SCAR-L) with a c...