Friday, December 21, 2018

Here Are Some Of The Weapons The U.S. Military Will Be Using Next Year

A Soldier tests the M3E1 Multi-role Anti-armor Anti-personnel Weapon System. US Army

Business Insider/Task & Purpose: Here are some of the awesome weapons and gear US forces will be taking into battle next year

* US forces are expected to receive a lot of new weapons and gear in 2019, everything from sniper rifles to body armor to new sidearms.
* These are a few of the new pieces of defense equipment that US troops will be taking into battle in the year ahead.

With the fiscal year 2019 defense budget put to bed without a bloody fight among lawmakers for the first time in recent memory, there are plenty of goodies for rank-and-file U.S. service members tucked into the massive appropriation measure — and not just their largest pay raise in more than a decade.

Here's a brief overview of all the new gear headed into the waiting hands of soldiers and Marines downrange in 2019.

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WNU Editor: Impressive.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I didn't see anything impressive in that article.

It's for 2019. pistols and some sniper rifle and some body armor. Wtf.

To stay competitive I'd have expected first batch of laser rifles, some nice new mini drones, self repairing body armor, ..you know?

Instead it looks like same old same old with small upgrades. Where's the innovation?

Anonymous said...

There are designs that people thought of in 1900, but they could not get them done becauise of _____.

It is called ________.


There is the innovation.


Gadfly Speck said...

Merry Christmas!

James said...

You too Gadfly!