Upgrades Are Giving Soldiers Better And Deadlier Weapons

Photo: The Heat Adaptive Modular Rifle, or HAMR, is a light machine gun produced by FNH USA that looks like an assault rifle. The magazine-fed FN HAMR is capable of firing from a closed bolt in both semi-automatic and fully automatic modes, and automatically transitions into open-bolt operation in semi-automatic or fully automatic before reaching cook-off temperature for a chambered cartridge.FNH USA

Upgrades Give Soldiers Better, Deadlier Weapons -- Army Times

Improvements in the works for three key weapon systems will help ensure soldiers never enter a fair fight.

Leading the way is the combat-proved Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station, or CROWS. The Army’s plan is simple: More and better.

CROWS has been a huge hit among combatants. It’s not hard to understand why. It gets operators out of the turret and under the armor, and turns area weapons into precision engagement weapons. Target identification and day/night surveillance capabilities are light years beyond what small-level leaders have had in the past.

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My Comment: The long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have not only changed the way the U.S. military functions .... but it has also upgraded their older weapon systems. This .... I suspect .... will continue for the foreseeable future.