Defense News: FN America to supply army with additional M240L machine guns

 

FN America to supply army with additional M240L machine guns

This is the company's second win in the last year in a contract to supply these machine guns, when in June 2021 the company had won a contract worth over $92 million

By Eyal Boguslavsky, Israel Defense, 02/02/22

M240L machine gun photo from the FN America website

FN America, a business unit of FN Herstal, has won a contract from U.S. Department of Defense valued at as much as $49.9 million for additional M240L machine guns to the U.S. Army. This is the company's second win in the last year in a contract to supply these machine guns. In June 2021, Israel Defense reported that the company had won a contract worth over $92 million for the supply of M240 machine guns of various models to the US Army.

The company says the M240 (also known as the FN MAG) is a family of medium machine guns that has long been employed by all services of the U.S. Armed Forces. The Army first adopted the weapon in 1977 as an armor vehicle mounted secondary weapon system. Army and Marine infantry units began using the M240G and M240B in the mid-90s.

Photo by Pfc. Jessica Scott,  25th Infantry Division

The M240L variant is equipped with the forward-mounted MIL-STD 1913 rail kit. It is five pounds lighter than the original M240B, but delivers the same performance and reliability.

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