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U.S. Army Issues New “Individual Carbine” Draft RFP (Request For Proposal): How will the Army’s Next Carbine Improve on the Colt M4/M4A1 Carbine, and will it still be an AR? DR has some ideas…

By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com February 8, 2011 Updated on 1/12/11. About a week ago, on January 31, 2011, the U.S. Army issued a Draft Request For Proposal (RFP) W15QKN-11-R-F003 for an “Individual Carbine” to supposedly replace the Colt M4/M4A1 Carbine, a direct-gas-impingement (DGI) AR-15 carbine configured to U.S. military specifications. Of course, the Army looking for …

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FERFRANS HVLAR (High Volume Light Automatic Rifle) IAR-Type Piston-Driven AR Carbine Performs 150-Round Full-Auto Mag Dump with ARMATAC SAW-MAG 150-Round Double-Drum Magazine (Video!)

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com All photos contained in this article were taken by DefenseReview.com, and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. January 12, 2011 Updated on 1/31/11. FERFRANS Specialties, manufacturer of the truly excellent FERFRANS SOAR (Special Operations Assault Rifle) select-fire/full-auto AR (AR-15) SBRs (Short Barreled Rifles), recently introduced their Infantry Automatic Rifle …

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KAC SR-25 EM/M110 SASS (Semi-Automatic Sniper System) 16″ Carbine: 7.62mm NATO/.308 Win. Tactical AR Battle Carbine/Rifle Outfitted with Leupold 1.1-8x CQBSS Tactical Rifle Scope for U.S. Military Special Operations (SPECOPS) Mountain Warfare Ops in Afghanistan: DR Photos from SOFIC 2010!

By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com All photos contained in this article were taken by DefenseReview.com, and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. The photos were shot with a Canon PowerShot S90 10-megapixel digital camera (still camera with video capability). December 22, 2010 DefenseReview got a chance to view and handle the KAC SR-25 Enhanced …

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Next Generation Arms (NGA) X7 Mid-Length Tactical AR Rifle/Carbine/SBR with Advanced Ceramic Technology (ACT) Self-Lubricating and Protective Internal and External Ceramic Coating Tech (Video!)

By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com December 20, 2010 Updated on 12/24/10. In his January 2008 article for DefenseReview (DR) on the LaRue Tactical Stealth 16″ Stealth Complete Upper Receiver Assembly, DR contributor Mike Pannone discussed Next Generation Arms’ (NGA) Advanced Ceramic Technology (ACT) protective and self-lubricating internal ceramic coating tech. ACT is designed to take direct-gas-impingement (DGI) …

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Hughes Precision Products (HPP) Forged and Billet AR (AR-15/M16) Lower Receivers for Tactical AR Rifle/Carbine/SBR Builds

By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com All photos contained in this article were shot by DefenseReview.com (DR), and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. The embedded photos were shot with a Canon PowerShot S90 10-megapixel digital camera (still camera with video capability). December 1, 2010 DefenseReview (DR) recently received a stripped AR lower receiver (AR-15/M16 …

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Vltor/POF 6.5 Grendel Special Purpose Rifle (SPR)-Type AR-15 Tactical Rifle/Carbine for Special Operations

By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com Photo(s) Credit: Doug Richardson, Special Weapons for Military & Police (SWMP) May 13, 2009 Updated on 5/15/09 And, speaking of Charlie Cutshaw articles, we might as well mention Mr. Cutshaw’s cover gun article on the Vltor/POF 6.5 Grendel (a.k.a. 6.5mm Grendel a.k.a. 6.5G a.k.a. 65G) semi-auto-only direct-gas-impingement (DGI) AR-15 tactical carbine/rifle for …

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Smith & Wesson M&P15R 5.45x39mm Tactical AR-15 Carbine: Have your AR-15 with a side of Russian.

by David Crane May 6, 2009 The April 2009 issue of Special Weapons for Military & Police (SWMP) (Gun Buyer’s Annual #74) has an article on the Smith & Wesson (S&W) M&P15R 5.45x39mm Russian (a.k.a. 5.45x39mm Soviet a.k.a. 5.45x39mm Kalashnikov) semi-auto tactical AR-15 carbine. It’s an interesting offering, since the 5.45mm Russian is an interesting little cartridge, and combining it …

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Springfield Armory XDM Pistol: 16+1 Rounds of .40 S&W Firepower

By David Crane defrev at gmail dot com July 26, 2008 For the last few years, DefenseReview has received some pretty glowing feedback on the Springfield Armory XD45 (eXtreme Duty 45) .45 ACP pistol. One of the primary aspects of the XD45 pistol that the professionals we’ve interviewed appreciate is its fully-supported chamber which allows them to fire high-pressure +P …

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6.8x45mm Kramer Urban Combat Cartridge (UCC) for Urban Warfare Ops

By David Crane defrev at gmail dot com DefenseReview has covered the 6.8 SPC (a.k.a. 6.8 Remington SPC a.k.a. 6.8x43mm SPC a.k.a. 6.8mm Remington SPC a.k.a. 6.8mm SPC) round for quite some time now. We’re a proponent of the cartridge, due to its superior efficacy over 5.56x45mm NATO (5.56mm NATO)/.223 Rem. within its (6.8 SPC) operational envelope of 400-500 yards, …

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