When the military selects a weapons platform, the design and features are distilled and translated down to the consumer market in a range of products. We can see some of that in the third iteration of SIG SAUER’s MCX rifle platform.
Today SIG announced the new MCX-SPEAR-LT, the latest evolution of the XM5 rifle rifle that won the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon competition. The MCX-SPEAR-LT rifles — basically Gen3 MCX guns — will replace SIG’s Virtus line.