The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) announced on Friday that they will be purchasing up to 15,000 M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles (IAR) and spare parts from Heckler and Koch (H&K) in Ashburn, Virginia, under a ...
The U.S. Marine Corps has been instrumental in American combat operations for well over 200 years. Aside from the will to fight, the rifle has long stood as the Marines’ most important weapon on the ...
From British muskets to today’s M27 IAR, weaponry has advanced while preserving the Marine ethos. “Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman.” That saying has been an unofficial motto of the ...