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SCAR Overview

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 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...

SOPMOD M4

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  SOPMOD M4                                    Caliber:  5.56 × 45mm M855 In view of the fact that many manufacturers that provide various sights, lights and other tactical accessories for carbines have not had a mounting interface mark for a long time, USSOCOM (U.S. Special Operations Command ) began to try to develop a set of close-combat carbines in September 1989 . The accessory interface standard was adopted, and the project name SOPMOD was officially proposed on May 15, 1992. SOPMOD means "Special Operations Peculiar Modification". This is the collective name for a series of equipment with the M4A1 rifle as the core. The derivative models such as Mk.18 CQBR and Mk.12 SPR that were later developed on this basis are actually part of SOPMOD. However, when the types of guns equipped increased, in some special forces, everyone used to use the abbreviation SOPMOD. Represents the M4A1 with ...