SCAR Overview
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...