By Matthew Cox - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday May 12, 2009 6:16:28 EDT
About 600 members of the 75th Ranger Regiment will soon take the Special Operations Combat Assault Rifle into battle.
The 600 SCARs are the first of 1,800 that U.S. Special Operations Command began fielding in early April, SOCom spokeswoman Air Force Maj. Denise Boyd told Army Times.
SOCom chose the SCAR system — which consists of the 5.56mm MK16 and the 7.62mm MK17 — to replace weapons including the 5.56mm M4A1 carbine, made by Colt Defense LLC.
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75th Rangers will take SCAR to war
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75th Rangers will take SCAR to war
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Re: 75th Rangers will take SCAR to war
Damn, they are doing the right thing........RLTW
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Re: 75th Rangers will take SCAR to war
Interesting to see the return of full auto in lieu of 3 round burst.
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Re: 75th Rangers will take SCAR to war
We had full auto the whole time and we never used itTrigger wrote:Interesting to see the return of full auto in lieu of 3 round burst.
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x2Baseplate wrote:We had full auto the whole time and we never used itTrigger wrote:Interesting to see the return of full auto in lieu of 3 round burst.
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Re: 75th Rangers will take SCAR to war
Full auto burns too much ammo. If you can't put him down with two or three rounds, you shouldn't be shooting the fuckin' thing in the first place!Bcosniper wrote:x2Baseplate wrote:We had full auto the whole time and we never used itTrigger wrote:Interesting to see the return of full auto in lieu of 3 round burst.
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Re: 75th Rangers will take SCAR to war
Looks like a good weapon.
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Re: 75th Rangers will take SCAR to war
My buddy has one that I got to finger yesterday. Pretty nice, I was jealous!! I'm still leaning towards a Masada (ACR) for me personally, but that project leaves something to be desired.
If they come out with the ability to change calibers on the ACR (like originally advertised!) IMHO the ACR would have been a better rifle then the SCAR.
If they come out with the ability to change calibers on the ACR (like originally advertised!) IMHO the ACR would have been a better rifle then the SCAR.
