USMC eyes 2003 IOC for new shoulder-launched assault weapon

The U.S. Marine Corps wants to develop and begin fielding by 2003 a new Shoulder-launched Multi-Purpose Assault Weapon (SMAW), and hopes to put funding in place as part of the fiscal 2000 Program Objective Memorandum exercise. The weapon "must be a light, man-portable, fire-and-forget weapon," the...

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