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The .277 Fury or 6.8×51mm Common Cartridge [4] [5] (designated as the .277 SIG Fury by SAAMI) [1] is a centerfire rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge announced by SIG Sauer in late 2019. [2] Its hybrid three-piece cartridge case has a steel case head and brass body connected by an aluminum locking washer to support the high chamber pressure ...
The XM250 light machine gun and XM7 rifle were designed to fire the 6.8×51mm SIG Fury cartridge in response to concerns that improvements in body armor would diminish the effectiveness of common battlefield rounds such as the 5.56×45mm NATO (used in the M4 carbine and M249 light machine gun) and 7.62×51mm NATO. [8] [9] [10]
Nearly 100 years after the .276 Pedersen introduced the concept of a 7mm infantry round for semi-automatic rifles, on April 19, 2022, the United States Army adopted the .277 Fury (6.8x51mm Common) as the United States Army's general-purpose cartridge, this cartridge features a 7.04 mm bullet in a two-part version of a necked down 7.62x51mm NATO ...
The SIG MCX Spear (stylized as MCX-SPEAR) is a multi-caliber rifle developed by the American division of SIG Sauer from the SIG MCX series of carbines. The SIG MCX Spear is primarily chambered in .277 SIG FURY but can be adapted to 7.62×51mm NATO and 6.5mm Creedmoor with a barrel change.
A U.S. Army graphic detailing the competitors for the program as of December 2020. The Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program is a United States military program created in 2017 by the U.S. Army to replace the 5.56mm M4 carbine, the M249 SAW light machine gun, and the 7.62mm M240 machine gun, with a common system of 6.8mm cartridges and to develop small arms fire-control systems for the ...
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Compared to the M4A1 carbine weighing 6.34 lb (2.88 kg) unsuppressed, with a basic combat load of 210 rounds in seven 30-round magazines, in total weighing 7.4 lb (3.4 kg), the XM7 rifle weighs about 2 lb (0.91 kg) more and each soldier carries roughly a 4 lb (1.8 kg) heavier load with 70 fewer rounds.
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