The Special Purpose Individual Weapon was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a flechette-firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved. The concepts continued to
The Special Purpose Individual Weapon at the museum of the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland, United States
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 d
Special Purpose Individual Weapon
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A working XM25 prototype is tested in 2005; this was part of OICW Increment 2
The final four ACR program test entrants
The Heckler & Koch MP7, conceptualized in the late 1990s as the kinetic energy component of the SABR (later XM29); the XM29 was put on hold, but the MP7 entered production in 2001
One tester is kneeling with a XM8 Carbine and XM320 attached, the other has the XM8 sharpshooter