UK to Issue 7.62 rifles for Afghanistan
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:59 pm
Posted on Jane's Defense Weekly website today, the UK MoD will be ordering 440 7.62x51mm semi-automatic rifles for ground soldiers in Afghanistan after repeated requests from soldiers in country not being able to fire back at insurgents due to the lack of range of their current 5.56mm rifles.
The new rifle is made by Lewis Machine & Tool in the United States. It is essentially a AR-10 rifles with quick change barrels and a quad picatinny rail system.
I know special ops have been using these 7.62mm for awhile and in some US regular army and marine units. This do a job of letting the UK's soldier reach out and touch someone with out needing a sniper rifle or heavy machine gun.
http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/j ... _1_n.shtml
The new rifle is made by Lewis Machine & Tool in the United States. It is essentially a AR-10 rifles with quick change barrels and a quad picatinny rail system.
I know special ops have been using these 7.62mm for awhile and in some US regular army and marine units. This do a job of letting the UK's soldier reach out and touch someone with out needing a sniper rifle or heavy machine gun.
http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/j ... _1_n.shtml