{"id":194481,"date":"2008-09-20T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/marine-corps-eyes-m249-saw-replacement\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T12:34:00","slug":"marine-corps-eyes-m249-saw-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/marine-corps-eyes-m249-saw-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps Eyes M249 SAW Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the Marines are looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2008\/09\/marine_iar_091308\/\">partially replacing their belt fed M249 SAW with a lighter magazine fed automatic rifle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are hoping for a 12 lb weapon to replace the 17 lb SAW.<\/p>\n<p>Given that they are also dropping the quick change barrel as a way to get there, and using a slower rate of fire to deal with barrel heating this implies a significant drop in firepower.<\/p>\n<p>Not having served, I&#8217;d appreciate any comments from people who have about the merits of such a change.<\/p>\n<p>The US army is looking for a lighter weapon too, but they are sticking with the high rate of fire and belt feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the Marines are looking at partially replacing their belt fed M249 SAW with a lighter magazine fed automatic rifle. They are hoping for a 12 lb weapon to replace the 17 lb SAW. Given that they are also dropping the quick change barrel as a way to get there, and using a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}