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Welcome to AUSA 2019. My name is Paul. I'm with Sig Sauer. Music
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So what we have in front of us today, the ammunition is what is key to the program
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That is the commonality between both platforms. The MCX Spear is our magazine fed submission. Music
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So it's all about keeping your military safe at a safe distance to engage an enemy
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to identify that enemy and engage them before they become a threat. Music
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The 6.8 at the velocities that the government is asking for, with the grain projectile that they've chosen, is very effective at range
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That's why 6.8. Music
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Yes, absolutely. So we'll start with the MCX Spear. It's your typical M4 platform, right
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If you look at this from the outside envelope, it really doesn't look much different than any other assault rifle that's on the market today
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A lot of the things that we had to do to the gun are internal to the weapon
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and we left the outside of the weapon so that soldiers that already know AR type platforms
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can transition into this weapon easily. So AR style controls, right? AR style grip and AR style stock controls
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We go to full auto and then semi. We also incorporated a side charging handle into this weapon system
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Again, it's transitioning infantrymen to Belford soldiers. Belford soldiers are comfortable with an infantryman gun. Music
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There is a weight delta from a standard M4 platform. You have to increase the weight somewhat, and the U.S. military knew that
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because you're asking for a much different round. So in order to, again, capture that chamber pressure, you have to beef up the gun a little bit
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So they gave a little bit extra on the weight requirement, knowing that they needed the capability of standoff. Music
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So all of our weapon platforms are fully optimized for suppressed, right
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We have two gas settings, only two. We got rid of adverse. We want to keep things simple for the infantryman
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We have suppressed and unsuppressed. That's our gas setting, adjustments here on the gas valve
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But the suppressors that we've developed for this program, usually there's a tradeoff, right
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You're asking a suppressor to do three things, sound, flash, and reduce blowback
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And it's usually a tradeoff. If you do really well in one area, you really don't do so well in another area
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With our suppressor group, I think we've done extremely well in all three areas
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We have reduced sound, which saves a soldier's hearing, right? Now they can do their 20 years and get out and still be able to hear their grandkids
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The muzzle flash, you don't want to give your position away, right? So our muzzle flash is almost nil
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Very little muzzle flash, especially after the second round. First round, you'll have a little bit more. That's typical of a suppressor
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But the big one and the new requirement that is becoming apparent in the industry today is reduced blowback
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Blowback, typically with a suppressor, it's the toxic gases that come over your soldiers, right
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It gives them melanoma of the face, heavy metals ingested into their system, and they're toxic
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Our blowback is on par with an M4 unsuppressed. So we're getting the same performance out of our suppressors suppressed as an M4 unsuppressed
