Photo Of The Day and we’re back looking at the training and testing of the Army’s new 6.8mm family of Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle (NGSW-R), NGSW-Automatic Rifle (AR) and the NGSW-Fire Control (FC) systems.

Above you see an infantryman with the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment (Strike Force), 2nd Brigade (Strike), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) (Screaming Eagles), as he conducts familiarization fire with the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Automatic Rifle during New equipment Training while operationally testing at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

“I’m used to the M4 — it’s lighter — I’m used to the recoil, the engagements, everything the M4 has to offer. But, as we went through the LUT with the NGSW-R, I can see the capabilities that it brings to an infantryman, especially at a longer distance.”

The Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle during the squad live fire (blank iteration) exercise,

Below: The Next Generation Squad Weapon-Automatic Rifle, suppressed.

Below: An infantryman with 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment (Strike Force), 2nd Brigade (Strike), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) (Screaming Eagles), engages targets with the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Automatic Rifle.

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Images: Photo by Mr. Mark Scovell, Visual Information Specialist, U.S. Army Operational Test Command. Captions: Maj. Rodrick A. Polk, test officer, Maneuver Test Directorate, U.S. Army Operational Test Command. Original Source