Sep 13, 2022 · For more than a year now, U.S. Marines with the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion have been armed in part with a new short-barrel variant of the service’s 5.56x45mm M27 …

Sep 17, 2022 · Force Recon Marines acquire the short-barreled version of the M27 rifle but look ahead to a new weapon that the US Army has in development.

The M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR) is a 5.56mm, select-fire assault rifle / squad automatic weapon developed from the HK416 by Heckler & Koch.

The M27 is fielded today as an IAR, precision rifle, general infantry rifle, and most recently as a short-barreled upper receiver Reconnaissance Weapons Kit (RWK). Now civilians can own a …

May 7, 2017 · The reason for the M27’s lackluster bolt life has to do with its gas system. From its inception, the HK416 (the family to which the M27 belongs) was designed as a short-barreled …

Apr 19, 2019 · A 2015 report that was leaked online evaluated the use of the M27 as a designated marksman rifle, the role it has come to play in its M38 configuration.

Jan 28, 2025 · Our goal was to create our version of the M27 IAR upper that would address issue with the current issued HK M27, the heat that builds up in its barrel during heavy use and …

A variant of the Heckler & Koch HK416, the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR) was selected by the U.S. Marine Corps in August 2011 in an innovative program to develop a highly accurate, …

The 5.56mm belt-fed M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, adopted by the Marine Corps in 1985, is seen here in its latest ‘Para’ configuration. This evolved from an effort initiated in Marine Force …

Sep 13, 2022 · Marine Recon Units Get Short-Barrel Versions Of The H&K M27 Rifle A set of conversion parts, known as the Reconnaissance Weapons Kit, turns full size M27 rifles in …