How much the choice of a new Individual Carbine for the US Army will influence the word market remains to be seen, but obviously Special Forces units tend to be ahead of the Green Army in terms of small arms choice. In the assault rifles/carbine field, the M4 saga in the Green Army is still in full swing while, in the special forces community, M4 derivatives such as the Heckler & Koch HK416 have become popular. The weapon uses a company-proprietary gas piston system that avoids the introduction of propellant gases and carbon fouling into the weapon, thus solving most of the stoppage problems that are so typical of the basic M4 carbine.
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