Armas individuales y de escuadra

[charoska]

Y nuestro concurso fue en 1999/2000, así que hasta el 2025 (los nuestros tienen que durar más) no los cambiaremos

[poliorcetes]

Atención a una interesante propuesta británica en .50, que hay que ver si es creíble o si es vapor

STA 50A .50 Caliber Fully Suppressed Semi-Auto with Hydraulic Recoil Dampening System



A small British engineering company called AEI, based at Ascot a few miles outside London, is best known for making gun barrels for aircraft and for heavy machine guns. The company has recently begun branching into small arms weapon design. At the DSEi Arms Expo in London this week they revealed one of the most interesting firearms I have seen in a while now.

STA50A3-convert

The STA 50A (pictured above) is a lightweight, fully suppressed .50 BMG semi-automatic rifle designed with special forces in mind. I am told it has a novel locking system inside and that this, combined with finely tuned hydraulics and recoil springs, results in significantly reduced recoil. The company says the rifle has been designed to be fireable from the shoulder in the off hand (standing unsupported) position.

As you can see in the photos, this is a bulky rifle system, but apparently it does not weigh as much as it looks. Our spy told us that he estimated it weighed 30 lbs and suspected they are using expensive alloys to achieve this weight given the bulk of the rifle. For comparison, an unsuppressed Barrett M82 weights just under 30 lbs.

STA50A4-convert
No butt stock. It appears that a simple rubber pad would be sufficient with the receiver sitting against the operator’s shoulder.

The company was not willing to reveal much more about the gun. We do know it uses a 5 round box magazine and the platform has been designed to scale up. If the .50 caliber concept works, they will produced a 20mm version, which will also be capable ot being fired offhand! Now that would be something worth seeing!

STA50A2-convert

The company also had a mockup of another variant of this rifle on displayed. This version is named the STA50B and it uses a more complex hydraulic recoil system. It looks like something that should be mounted on the side of a helicopter, or the front of an A-10 Thunderbolt, not shouldered!

STA50B3-convert

STA50B2-convert



I look forward to hearing more about this gun. AEI, if you are reading us, please invite us to a test firing!



- See more at: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015 ... xOwNi.dpuf

[cualquiera]

El Ejército de Tierra español actualizará sus fusiles de asalto G-36E y los rifles de francotirador Accuracy

http://www.defensa.com/index.php?option ... Itemid=162

[charoska]

Realmente es un mini-programa que ya lleva cuatro años y por el que se adquieren esos equipos. el objetivo es equipar a unos 6000 combatientes con medios de visión nocturna y fusiles tuneados

[cualquiera]

Gracias Charoska,

¿Sabes si se están dotando a unidades concretas o se reparten en general?

Saludos

[aa]

y tanto que mini, aun tendran que pasar años para completar (solo de punteros, 80 el año pasado, ahora estos... aunque no compres ni para mil, ya que son caros, a este ritmo, como el Vamtac en nada, los que entran por los que salen)... y seguimos comprando eotech y rail para montarlo encima del asa (demasiada altura y aparatoso), cuando deberia comprarse un asa-rail que eliminara el asa-visor en ciertos puestos ( ya que si la masa fueran de 3x, tendria aun sentido, pero por mucho que aporte al apunte el visor, no tiene mas que 1,5 aumentos y sin reticula iluminada), ya que ese asa-rail, con miras mecanicas auxiliares mas el eotech, ya da mas garantia de no quedarte tirado, por tener miras auxiliares de verdad y por tener una referencia nocturna si no tienes visor nocturno... y queda a una altura decente, y mismamente mas comodo para adosar el PVS-14. y digo Eotech, porque ya esta y no hay para mas, lo suyo seria un visor con reticula iluminada compacto y decente sobre ese mismo asa-rail que pudiera complementarse con la vision nocturna.

y 24 millones se dieron para el Comfut...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/bravo551/FirearmsLucky.jpg

[charoska]

El COMBUT ha sido un derroche que debería acabar con más de uno en la cárcel

Básicamente se está dotando de un modulo de compañía a cada BIL, y al resto de unidades tipo Bon/Grupo de un módulo de Sección. A las academias también les llegará algo

[poliorcetes]

Tengo la impresión de que COMFUT se lanzó porque es en lo que estaba "todo el mundo", pero sin ideas claras, sin análisis (publicado) de necesidades, sin objetivos realistas y que supusieran un cambio respecto a lo actual... y sin que un tercero de la OTAN estuviera dando pasos realmente claros. Hasta donde sé, no hemos sido los únicos que nos hemos dado la torta, mira sin ir más lejos a los gringos con su Objective Warrior o los franceses con PAPOP y demás

[aa]

el Comfut es un programa de desarrollo, como lo han sido todos..., no era dame un traje de supercombatiente para ya, todo eso, tanto aqui como en otros paises, era un plan en varias fases (otra cosa es que la prensa vendiera el potencial mas futurista, como lo que iba a salir ya), siendo lo inicial poco mas que un sueldametodoenuno... de lo que ya existe en el mercado (cosa que es dificil porque se hace aparatosa, cuesta un paston y al final caduca antes de que tengas todo en servicio, si es que tienes para comprarlo...), por lo que por eso la cosa ha estado fallando..., y solo valen partes de los programas, el resto hay que redefinirlo (de hecho ya hay planes para redefinir el comfut el año que viene, mas dinerito) o cancelarlo.

el problema del Comfut, no es el Comfut.., que tambien (mucha cosa que se veia, hasta de lejos, no valia pa na), el problema es que cuando no gastas un duro en material de infanteria, te pones a gastar 24 millones para un programa que solo lo que vale para cada soldado, podrias dotarle mas que bien hoy dia. Si en vez de tanta tonteria, de esos 30.000 millones que siempre se citan, hubieras cogido mil para dotar al personal de armamento ligero que falta por completar o no existe, vision nocturna/termica, completar radios, otros equipos, mini/microUAVS, morteros, y hasta vehiculos..., el ET en ese aspecto estaria bien equipado, hoy, hacemos apaños mini, y compras a cuentagotas, pero nos hemos pulido miles de millones sin destacar apenas en cosas que es lo que combate... o lo que hace misiones, que hasta alturas no se haya sustituido los morteros o hecho algun apaño..., que hasta para comprar un casco, el concurso haya quedado desierto, porque los que se presentaban no pasaban los pliegos...

[Roberto Montesa]

El COMBUT ha sido un derroche que debería acabar con más de uno en la cárcel

Bueno, como abras esa puerta, alcala meco acaba pareciendo un cuartel.

[charoska]

Cómo defines tu pagar 24 millones por 30 equipos que no sirven para nada?????

[PelotonRueda]

Buenas.

Cómo defines tu pagar 24 millones por 30 equipos que no sirven para nada?????

Yo, como "...le supieron vender la burra..."

Saludos.

[poliorcetes]

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articl ... fense.html

Remote-Controlled Weapons Augment Soldiers On Perimeter At NIE 16.1
(Source: US Army; issued Sept 28, 2015)
Soldiers pass near a remotely-controlled weapons system, which has drastically reduced the number of Soldiers needed for perimeter security at an expeditionary base camp on Fort Bliss, Texas.
FORT BLISS, Texas --- Remotely-controlled weapons systems have drastically reduced the number of Soldiers needed for perimeter security at an expeditionary base camp here.

"Every Soldier I have assigned to securing the perimeter is one I don't have that can execute support missions," said Lt. Col. Raphael Heflin, commander, 142nd Combat Service Support Battalion, or CSSB, 1st Armored Division.

At a conventional combat outpost, it takes four to six Soldiers doing eight- or 12-hour shifts to man one weapons system on the perimeter, he said.

Using relatively new remote control weapons systems, he said, pointing to a series of unmanned, weaponized towers at the edge of the razor wire, two Soldiers inside the base camp tactical operation center can do the security work once done by 10.

The 142nd CSSB is among the many Army and other military service units - along with a 14-member coalition from mostly NATO nations - participating in Network Integration Evaluation 16.1, also called an NIE. The evaluation runs from Sept. 25 to Oct. 8. In all, about 9,000 participants are evaluating new and emerging network solutions.

Capt. Robert Scott, officer-in-charge of the 142nd CSSB's base defense operation center, explained how the remote-control weapons system works.

The systems, including the expeditionary towers atop which they're mounted, are known as containerized weapons systems, he said.

One expeditionary tower "can be put together by six Soldiers in less than an hour, with minimal training," Scott said. When it's time to pack up and leave, everything fits neatly back inside the container.

While just about any gun system can be mounted on the tower, the two Scott pointed out were fitted with a Browning M-2 50-caliber machine gun and a 338 Lapua sniper rifle. The weapons can be raised, lowered, rotated by 360-degrees and fired remotely, he said.


A CROWS weapon system on security perimeter of an expeditionary camp; it has a camera and can be fired remotely from inside the command post. (US Army video)


Scott introduced the operators who ran the systems. They sat inside a container with multiple large screens in front of them. To control the weapons, they used software called the Joint All Hazard Command Control System, which Scott said serves as the brains of the "Tower Hawk System."

On their screens were views outside the perimeter, including normal video feeds as well as thermal and infrared views. Scott said that the weapons systems are even more effective at night. "Anything moving at night we see long before they see us," he said, adding that "they" refers to the bad guys.

The system even differentiates between good and bad guys. Once the enemy is detected, the system plots coordinates, allowing the operator to take out the target, be it personnel or vehicles.

OPERATIONAL ENERGY

Heflin said the remote weapons system is one of two main things that his Soldiers are evaluating during NIE 16.1. The other is a variety of operational energy systems designed to reduce energy consumption, which, he said, translates to less fuel and water needed and fewer convoys.

Maj. Daniel Rodriguez, company commander, 542nd Quartermaster Company, a Reserve unit out of Erie, Pennsylvania, showed some of the 11 systems being assessed.

The Advanced Medium Mobile Power Source, or "amps micro grid," controls six 60-kilowatt generators, he said. It's a smart system that detects how much power the base camp is consuming.

When there is not enough power, the system turns on more generators, he said. When they're not needed, the system automatically turns off one or more generators. The system also determines which generator has been used the most and selects a fresh one to give the used one a rest. A light comes on when service or maintenance needs to be done as well.

Conventional generator setups, on the other hand, require generators to be running all the time, thereby consuming a lot more fuel, he said.

Rodriguez then showed a "Water From Air System" trailer. Inside were components that acted sort of like a dehumidifier, sucking water from the outside air and converting it into water clean enough to drink, he said.

The Water From Air System produces 4.5 gallons of water for each gallon of fuel it consumes, he said. It yields up to 15 gallons of water every 40 minutes, for up to 500 gallons a day. Even at 10 percent humidity, it works.

Also being evaluated by Rodriguez and his team was a black-water purifier that uses bacteria to break down sewage into water clean enough to be discharged safely into the environment. One system can treat 3,500 gallons per day.

The team is also evaluating a gray-water recovery system that ingests used shower and sink water and recovers 75 percent for reuse.

The expeditionary base camp consisted of 15 billeting containers, each capable of housing 10 Soldiers. Each container had two latrines, a laundry area and two showers. An additional two containers housed the tactical operations center. All containers were air conditioned.

Heflin said that Soldiers who've been on exercises appreciate the living conditions here. On the other hand, "I've got a few new Soldiers here who've never been in field. Next time they go to the field they'll be disappointed."

"My wife back in Pennsylvania seems to think I'm on vacation, living in such cozy conditions," said Staff Sgt. James Clarke, from the 563rd Quartermaster Company.

[poliorcetes]

Se me paso este verano

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015 ... steyr-aug/

New Zealand Army Selects LMT To Replace Steyr AUG


The New Zealand Army has been looking to replace their aging Steyr AUG rifles for some time. The New Zealand Ministry of Defense held trials to select a successor, competing in which were Beretta, CZ, Colt Canada, FNH, Steyr, SIG, H&K, and LMT. It was recently announced by the NZ MoD that Lewis Machine & Tool was selected as the winner - though what rifle they submitted was not mentioned:

A Request for Tender for the provision of contemporary individual weapons, necessary training, and associated support to the NZDF closed on 12 November 2014. Following the evaluation of the tender responses, the companies listed below were selected for the trials programme phase of the evaluation, which was undertaken between 2 March and 1 June 2015.

The following companies were selected for the Individual Weapon trials phase:

Beretta New Zealand Limited
Ceska zbrojovka a.s.
Colt Canada Corporation
FN HERSTAL
STEYR MANNLICHER GmbH
XTEK Limited (Sig Sauer)
Heckler & Kock GmbH
Lewis Machine & Tools Co Inc

Following the trials programme phase of the evaluation of tenders, the Ministry has selected Lewis Machine & Tool Co Inc of the USA as preferred Tenderer. Subject to the Ministry undertaking a Due Dilligence activity and negotiation of a contract package, New Zealand Government approval will be sought to proceed to award of a contract.

The New Zealand Army recently ordered a 7.62mm LMT rifle very similar to
the L129A1 in use with the British Army, so this may have been a factor in
the company's selection for the new NZ Individual Weapon. Conspicuously, the New Zealand Army expressed no preference for a bullpup platform.

UPDATE: Steve (the editor) here. We have a number of readers in New Zealand. Two of them both reported that the NZ Army have been referring to these rifles as the "M4". I am not sure if this is an official designation, a model number or if it literally references a US mil-spec M4 Carbine (probably not).

Soldiers who say the rifles say the Army was testing two versions, one with a 16" barrel and one with an 18" barrel.
lmt

LMT CQB16ODGB (Olive Drab Green)

Apparently LMT rifles test at the Burnham Military Camp a couple of weeks ago resemble the LMT CQB16ODGB (although probably is not this exact model) which retails for $2,100. The CQB16ODGB features:

* CQB MRP Upper Receiver (ODG).
* 16" Chrome Lined 1:7" Twist H-Bar Contour 5.56 Barrel.
* Standard Semi Auto Bolt Carrier Group.
* Tactical Charging Handle Assembly.
* Defender Lower (ODG) with SOPMOD Buttstock and Standard Trigger Group.
* Tactical Adjustable Flip Up Rear Sight.
* Tactical Flip Up Front Sight.

Apparently the NZ Army uses, or is planning on using, heavy 77 grain 5.56mm ammunition.

Thanks to all our Kiwi friends for sharing information with us.

Phil Note: While we would love to tell you and show you the exact rifle common government contract restrictions prevent the company from sharing that information.



- See more at: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015 ... jfEVj.dpuf

[charoska]

Al final todo el mundo sigue con el 5,56, por algo será