I told you that we should have stayed with M1s, BARs, and 1919A4s, but nooooo..... ;)
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If you can't win, hire the other company's engineering and design team.
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“According to Mr. Steimke’s representations, Sig was able to design and manufacture a competing .338 belt-fed machine gun in less than [18] months when it took GD-OTS more than a decade to develop and mature its impulse averaging and LMMG technology,” the court document states.
And as they are wont to do, SOCOM doesn't wait and uses that oh so sweet P11 money to buy what it wants now while the services sort out their issues.
https://soldiersystems.net/2019/10/2...s-armament-co/
-CRB
It was an interim solution. The MRGG contract was awarded to Geissele last September.
https://soldiersystems.net/2023/09/3...as-gun-sniper/
The Geissele MK1 Mod 0 MRGG-S is for Naval Special Warfare. The KAC is in use by USASOC. The two components of SOCOM have been running different Sniper systems for a while. NSW never got the M110 rifles so they had to run a solicitation for new guns to replace their MK20s rather than just buying uppers like USASOC.