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| Colt awarded $57 million contract for M4s for foreign sales |
| 2018-09-22 |
| American firearms manufacturer Colt’s Manufacturing LLC was awarded a $57,722,819 contract for procurement of M4 carbine rifles. On 20 September, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced that as part of the Foreign Military Sales the Colt’s Manufacturing LLC received a contract for procurement of up to 10,000 additional M4 and M4A1 5.56mm carbine rifles. The new 5.56mm carbine rifles to be supplied to Jordan, Morocco, Afghanistan, Senegal, Tunisia and Pakistan as part of the Foreign Military Sales. According to the DoD’s statement, work will be performed in West Hartford, Connecticut, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 20, 2019. |
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