The M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW, is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change ...

The JSSAP team hopes that the LMG will eventually replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, knows as a SAW, as the standard issue machine gun used by Soldiers in combat zones. GETTING TO KNOW THE ...

What troops on the ground in Afghanistan can't go without is the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW). Check out this SAW gunner in action > Every day is routine for deployed U.S. troops. They pull ...

This cutting-edge machine gun outperforms the M249 with an improved ... which is substantially lighter than the M249 SAW, which weighs about twenty-two pounds loaded. In addition, its smaller ...

What troops on the ground in Afghanistan can't go without is the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW). Check out this SAW gunner in action > Every day is routine for deployed U.S. troops. They pull ...

The M249 squad automatic weapon, or SAW, fired the same ammunition as the M16A2 rifle at a rapid rate of fire and was more compact than the gun it replaced. Although controversial, the M249 still ...

The training is part of the Army’s Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center expansion in the Philippines – the second time the mobile center has deployed to the country. It involves moving troops ...

FREDERICK, Md. (7News) — An M249 squad automatic weapon, or SAW, is a military machine gun designed for frontline infantry combat. And according to a federal indictment, Frederick County Sheriff ...

The XM250 will replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon for the same units ... outperforms the 7.62mm round used in the M240 machine gun system, typically found at the platoon level.