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Army's submachine gun challenge: 10 companies vying to supply conventional forces
[Wash Times] The U.S. Army recently put word out that it wanted submachine guns for conventional forces, and gun-makers were quick to respond.Ten companies are currently vying to supply troops outside the special operations forces realm with subguns for the modern battlefield. Officials said they wanted a weapon with full/semi-automatic selectable variant and a Picatinny rail, among other features, and organizations from Sig Sauer, Inc. to Colt answered the call. "For the first time in a long time, the Army is looking at a subgun for conventional forces," Todd South of Military Times reported Wednesday. "Special operations forces have carried these guns for a very long time, but your conventional soldiers and Marines don’t really have them in their arsenal until now." The Army received the following submissions: * Z-5RS, Z-5P and Z-5K Sub Compact Weapons; Zenith Firearms * B&T MP9 Machine Guns; Trident Rifles, LLC * MPX Sub Compact Weapon; Sig Sauer, Inc. * 5.5 CLT and 5.5 QV5 Sub Compact Weapon; Quarter Circle 10 LLC * PTR 9CS Sub Compact Weapon; PTR Industries, Inc. * MARS-L9 Compact Suppressed Weapon; Lewis Machine & Tool Company * CZ Scorpion EVO 3 A1 Submachine gun; CZ-USA * CMMG Ultra PDW; CMMG, Inc. * Beretta PMX Sub Compact Weapon; USA Corporation * CM9MM-9H-M5A; Colt’s Manufacturing Company, LLC "Another subgun option the Army could consider is [Heckler & Koch’s] MP5," Mr. South reported. "The [MP5 MLI] is an improved version on what they’ve had for decades. It’s pretty familiar to a lot of people. A lot of folks growing up like I did in the 1980s and 1990s might have seen it. The Navy SEALs carried it." Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-16 |
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