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An early XM8 mockup after the break up; became part of OICW Increment 1
The Objective Individual Combat Weapon or OICW was the next-generation service rifle competition that was under development as part of the United States Army OICW program; the program was eventually discontinued without bringing the weapon out of the prototype phase. The acronym OICW is often used to refer to the entire weapons program.
It was started in the aftermath of the Advanced Combat Rifle (or ACR) during the 1980s. Like the ACR program, it has largely been a failure in terms of achieving the specific program goals (e.g., replacing the M16) and has cost millions of dollars, but has resulted in many innovative weapons and weapon concepts as well as offshoot programs of its own.
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to harm the opposition. Combat may be armed (using weapons) or unarmed (not using weapons). Combat is resorted to either as a method of self-defense or...
which demonstrated a lack of reliability. In the 1990s, the ObjectiveIndividualCombatWeapon competition was put forth to find a replacement for the M4...
range up to 2 kilometres. It underwent combat trials before being cancelled. ObjectiveIndividualCombatWeapon A related project. Autocannon Mk 47 a 40...
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Plan (SAMP) projects: the ObjectiveIndividualCombatWeapon (20×28mm and 25×40mm low-velocity) and Advanced Crew Served Weapon (25×59mm high-velocity)...
barrel rifles List of rifle cartridges List of sniper rifles ObjectiveIndividualCombatWeapon Rifle grenade Rifling Rifled musket Service rifle Shooting...
directed-energy weapon (which does not involve any tangible projectile) are also ranged weapons. In contrast, a weapon intended to be used in hand-to-hand combat is...
Combat effectiveness is the capacity or performance of a military force to succeed in undertaking an operation, mission or objective. Determining optimal...
programmable airburst capability. It is the result of the OCSW or Objective Crew Served Weapon project. It is lightweight and designed to be two-man portable...
carbine used by Special Operations personnel to configure their weapons to individual preferences and mission requirements. Other Trijicon models have...
lists of weapons. List of medieval weapons List of premodern combatweapons List of American Civil War weapons List of World War I weapons List of World...
automatic weapon. The redesigned Infantry OSUT started in 2019. Depending on the result of the 2018 pilot, OSUTs could also extend training in other combat arms...
planned to enter service in late 2015.) HK XM29 (Germany – objectiveindividualcombatweapon – 5.56×45mm NATO, 20×85mm) HK33 (West Germany – assault rifle...
Army National Guard. Some trainees attend basic combat training along with their advanced individual training (AIT) at one place, referred to as One Station...
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