Video: Armatac SAW-MAG (also written SAWMAG) 150-Shot Double-Drum Magazine for USMC’s HK M27 IAR (Infantry Automatic Rifle) for Mobile Infantry: FN M249 SAW/LMG Look Out!

By David Crane
defrev (at) gmail (dot) com

June 8, 2010

Armatac Industries just sent us a link to their video on the new SAW-MAG (also written SAWMAG) 150-shot double-drum mag (magazine), which represents an evolutionary improvement over their CL-MAG. The SAWMAG is billed as the “ultimate feed device” and “the solution” for the Marines’ HK M27 IAR (Infantry Automatic Rifle), which is essentially a heavy-barreled HK416 gas piston/op-rod-driven AR-config (AR-15-config) rifle/carbine designed to augment or replace the FN M249 SAW/LMG (Squad Automatic Weapon/Light Machine Gun) in the infantry squad with a lighter high-volume full-auto firing magazine-fed weapon. Editor’s Note: Some IAR candidate weapons in the USMC IAR competition, like the Colt IAR, for example, incorporate a large heat sink underneath the (enlarged) handguards (along with the aforementioned heavy barrel) to further dissipate heat.

The Armatac SAW-MAG is 4179 STANAG compliant, and weighs approximately 4 lbs empty, and approximately 8 lbs when loaded with 150 rounds of 5.56x45mm NATO (5.56mm NATO)/.223 Rem. ammo. A fully-loaded SAWMAG-outfitted AR-config HK M27 IAR weighs less than an empty M249: approx. 16-18 lbs (fully-loaded IAR) vs. approx. 22 lbs (empty M249 SAW).

The HK IAR was chosen in late 2009 in a down-select over the FN Herstal (FNH) and Colt Defense candidate IARs, and its been reported that the U.S. Marine Corps plans to purchase 4,100 units (HK IAR’s).

Photo and Video Credit: Armatac Industries, Inc.

Company Contact Info:

Company Contact Info:

Mike Snow
Armatac Industries Inc.
P.O. BOX 340
Lyndhurst, Va 22952
Phone: 540-943-6735
Fax: 540-942-8702
Email: sales@armatac.com
Website: http://www.armatac.com/

Cage Code:
4YGJ7

DUNS:
808853571

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