Modular rifle SIG556xi

27 2014 June

At the next EUROSATORY exhibition in Paris, SIG Sauer presented a new modular rifle. This is SIG556xi, which has already been demonstrated in a semi-automatic version at the January "SHOT Show". A month after the show, the rifle arrived at the IWA exhibition. And now - "EUROSATORY 2014" - an exhibition in which not only dozens of companies show interest, but also a whole range of state institutions that are directly related to defense, the website reports http://www.all4shooters.com.

The SIG556xi rifle is a successful combination of those features that are generally characteristic of the manufacturer. This is the piston system of the Kalashnikov variant, and the gas unit, which is presented with a three-position gas regulator. Such a proven combination with a set of technological innovations allow the use of a modular rifle in a variety of combat options. An important aspect is related to the fact that under SIG556xi various variants of both stores and ammunition are suitable, which allows, for example, to use ammunition captured from the enemy in battle.
The upper part of the receiver of the rifle SIG556xi is made of stainless steel, which has been specially machined. The modular principle allows the use of either 10-inch or 16-inch trunks.

There are rifles and parts made of polymeric materials. This, for example, strips on the fore.

As variations of the material, either carbon fiber or specially treated aluminum is used. The rifle butt is made of carbon fiber. It can be foldable and telescopic, and therefore will be able to meet the needs of the most demanding shooters. Modularity weapons allows you to adapt SIG556xi for combat with maximum efficiency.

The SIG556xi rifle is equipped with a “native” chamber for 5.56X45mm ammunition, but the modularity of the project allows you to convert weapons for firing .300 AAC “Blackout” ammunition. This is a growing caliber developed by American engineers. What attracts this caliber attention of experts? Its main advantage is to reduce the noise of firing, for which additional attachments can be used.

The lower part of the weapon can also be replaced with a module for another store. In the layout there is the possibility of using the Russian (Soviet) store under the AK and AKM. This option may be suitable for those shooters who are accustomed to using a Kalashnikov, but want to test their strength on the new weapons of Western production. Naturally, Kalashnikov cartridges can also be used when shooting with a SIG556xi modular rifle.

Photos used:: http://www.all4shooters.com/

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It looks beautiful, everything is technological, functional, and delicate. And it works, probably well. One question - in the course of actual operation, that is, in combat conditions, what will happen under this plastic forend after a week or two of work? Mud! Yes, how much! How to remove it? Only when disassembling weapons. Are weapons often disassembled in combat conditions? I won’t say for Kalash; But such a tricked joke will have to be disassembled often.
This is the flip side of tuning and bells and whistles. In practice, a lot comes out differently than in the dash. This must be taken into account. In order not to be in the position once - cartridges to horseradish, and the barrel does not rattle.
1. the47th 27 June 2014 10: 52
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  Yes, how much! How to remove it?
  
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Iline 27 June 2014 10: 41
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Something in my sixth sense suggests that the presentation is a presentation, and military operations are military operations. the message about the use of various types of ammunition is weak. fighter what? will carry with them all these barrels and other gadgets for various ammunition and stores? He needs to fight. Even the Americans in Vietnam threw away their rifles and used the AK-47 along with cartridges and magazines.
And the versatility of weapons, like a universal tool, suggests that everything can, but everything is equally mediocre. Unlike sharpened to perform one strictly defined operation.
1. Victor-cort 27 June 2014 13: 05
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  Even the Americans in Vietnam threw away their rifles and used the AK-47 along with cartridges and magazines.
  
  :) Hmm .... there are still such people. .....
MORDVIN13rus 27 June 2014 10: 43
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And at the heart of everything is the same good old Kalash
1. Victor-cort 27 June 2014 13: 07
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  And at the heart of everything is the same good old Kalash
  
  et yes ... more Garand in the 30s at Kalashnikov stole the design
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    http://world.guns.ru/assault/switch/sig-540--542--543-r.html ; http://world.guns.ru/assault/switch/sig-550--551--552-r.html для общего развития прочтите для начала,а потом доказывайте где я не прав
    1. Victor-cort 27 June 2014 20: 58
      
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      Quote: MORDVIN13rus
      http://world.guns.ru/assault/switch/sig-540--542--543-r.html ; http://world.guns.ru/assault/switch/sig-550--551--552-r.html для общего развития прочтите для начала,а потом доказывайте где я не прав
      
      You are wrong in the fact that Kalashnikov stole this design just like the Swiss
      1. MORDVIN13rus 27 June 2014 23: 56
        
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        And did I really say that M.T. Kalashnikov stole something somewhere ??? AK is a compilation of many successful solutions collected in one creation. And the fact that SIG uses a modified AK automation system, but what's wrong with that. In the world today, in general, only 3 automation schemes are generally used, Kalashnikov, Stoner and Dragunov (simplified examples to just present the operation schemes). Or derivatives of them.
        
        Victor-cort 29 June 2014 18: 32
        
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        3 schemes of automation, Kalashnikov, Stoner and Dragunov
        
        so let's call them true heroes, Mondragon rifles (from where the system passed to Garand and through it to Kalashnikov), Ljungman AG-42 / AG-42B (this is what Stoner used), ABC-36 (it seems that Simonov was the first to use the system with with a separate piston, at least the first sample adopted for service), it was they who stood at the base, and for the most part these systems were ahead of time, for them there was neither the possibility of producing nor suitable cartridges .... everything else was derived from them.
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"An important aspect is related to the fact that under the SIG556xi various options for both magazines and ammunition are suitable, which allows, for example, the use of ammunition captured from the enemy in battle." Here and so you do not know how to throw it out just to lighten the burden, and you will be handed one more trunk.
1. anomalocaris 28 June 2014 08: 52
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  If only the trunk ... There, another whole machine turns out there.
  Well, the guys like to play Doom. Although you can understand them. For 30 years, modern small arms have reached maximum technical perfection. New large-scale rearmament, which took place in the XIX and XX centuries, no one is going to arrange, but I want to eat. For this, this chip about modularity was invented.
MORDVIN13rus 27 June 2014 11: 11
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I don’t understand, people’s admiration for modularity. As many claim, this is the future of shooting, flexibility of use and all that ... Then we imagine the situation, you’re sitting at the base, you have a standard-caliber rifle, roughly 5,56, ammunition is full, shoot no want. You’ll still have the same caliber for clearing, or reconnaissance, according to the state, the BC is not so big, so you drag an interchangeable barrel, a store receiver, a shutter and other related elements with a caliber of 7,62. Your group is attacked, the battle lasts for a long time, the regular bk is over, the supply of ammunition as well as help is not yet in sight, and you begin to disassemble your rifle and remodel it to a different caliber, and this time, that is, your firing sector remains uncovered, which can happen at this moment, I will modestly keep silent. And then, for joy, you receive 5,56 ammunition, and again you begin to do manipulations to change the caliber. And even a change in caliber implies, and a change in the settings of the sight, the ballistics of cartridges are different. But wouldn’t it be easier to take a machine of the defeated enemy, dial BK, and put your automatic machine in a corner, or hang it behind your back. Yes and time will be spent less
1. bunta 27 June 2014 11: 34
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  and you start to disassemble your rifle
  
  We look wider. Where you will take the "non-standard" 7,62 in 99,9% of cases (ie quite by accident) there will be the unit itself firing this 7,62. And with him and sadness that in vain they dragged these replaceable barrels with them.
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    So I wrote about the same thing. Therefore, modularity, this is an extra way to be enriched, the maximum that will be in demand is only an interchangeable barrel, and that is in question.
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    I wrote about this more than once.
2. Passing 27 June 2014 18: 20
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  Then imagine the situation ...
  
  This is a finger-sucking example that distorts the true purpose of modularity.
  The essence of modularity is a convenient and economical solution that allows you to implement the principle "for each task - your optimal weapon". Moreover, it is not necessary to understand this as replacing the barrel knee-deep in the mud, under the whistle of bullets. Basically, the replacement of modules is meant BEFORE performing a combat mission, at the basing point.
  An additional plus from modularity implemented specifically in the SIG556xi is the ability to quickly and cheaply change the caliber of the main small arms in the army. For example, if AKM were modular according to the SIG556xi principle, then switching to 5,45 would be much easier both in terms of costs and time. And at the same time, it would be possible to quickly play back, in the event of a change in circumstances, such as the revealed insufficient effectiveness of 5,45.
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    The essence of modularity is a convenient and economical solution.
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    For example, if AKM were modular according to the SIG556xi principle, the transition to 5,45 would be much easier both in cost and in time. And at the same time, there would be an opportunity to quickly play back, in the event of a change in circumstances, such as the revealed insufficient effectiveness of 5,45.
    
    And the fact that together with the barrel you need a replacement bolt and protselnoy group, which makes up more than half the cost of the machine - does not bother?
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      Firstly, the main feature of modularity is a different type of weapon in one caliber, i.e., ideally, get 4 in 1 (carbine-ШВ-manual machine gun-sniper semiautomatic device). Therefore, you will have to change less than when changing the caliber. Secondly, savings even when changing the caliber will take place.
      And in general, in the concept of modularity, the key point is not at all in economy, but in flexibility in a broad sense, incl. in the ability to put into practice the principle "for each task - your optimal weapon".
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        i.e., ideally, get 4 in 1 (carbine-SHV-machine gun-sniper semi-automatic)
        
        Never, due to the fact that each of these items has its own technical features that cannot be combined. For example, SV and RP, not only do they have different cartridges, but also completely different requirements for the barrel. At NE, he should have a hanging mount. The RP has an increased trunk mass, and when replaced, this is a violation of the holy concept of fetishists - ergonomics. So do not confuse the real modularity - used for example on the ISS, and in weapons. For example, no one is going to build airplanes on a modular basis changing engines, wings and fuselage.
        
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        1) Cartridges of the same type. And I did not mean a real sniper (in the modern sense), but a Marxman rifle (in Western terminology).
        In this type of weapon, they completely dispense with the cantilever hanging of the barrel and get an accuracy of about 1 moa (at the level of SVD).
        2) I did not understand about ergonomics, trunks are meant to be interchangeable, what is the problem of putting a machine-gun barrel or a sniper? Here the problem is different - firing from different positions of the shutter for the machine gun and the rest, but this is all solved in principle. you just need to work on it, invest resources.
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        This is all gone.
        
        Where did you go, in the USSR / Russia? Do not know. Or are you talking about "modularity" in aviation? Well, I hasten to disappoint you, multifunctionality (one might say modularity of weapons), which was said back in the 60-80s that it was impossible in principle, today is a mandatory feature of any modern fighter.
        The modularity is ALREADY implemented in many models of Western small arms, and no one in the West is going to abandon this trend, because the benefits and advantages are obvious, and the shortcomings (the need for shooting, for example) will inevitably be eliminated over time. This is if we work on it, invest resources, and not take the position that there is Kalash, why strain, come up with something, we’ll fight for another thousand years, because it’s cheap and reliable. Well, this is before the first war with a high-tech enemy ...
        
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        Where did you go, in the USSR / Russia? Do not know.
        
        http://topwar.ru/30681-otechestvennoe-oruzhie-lichnoe-mnenie-zapiski-speca.html#
        
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        Mikhail Degtyarev answers in the article "People hawala", Kalashnikov magazine. 6/2013.
        
        "From the point of view of precision, modular systems are also not
        everything is clear. Just a week ago we are in the editorial office
        shot from a Bushmaster ACR rifle, which
        is one of the contenders for changing weapons of families-
        M4. The task was to evaluate the accuracy of the bar
        Naulsky "Centaur" and the range of "walk" average
        hit points after removing / installing the barrel.
        4-gram bullet "American" did not fit, but a bullet
        weighing 3,6 g confidently fit into the 1 MOA (22 – 27 mm)
        groups of xnumx shots. One group I shot 4 pat-
        Ronov - it turned out 36 mm.
        Three times after the first shooting series we shoot-
        whether / put the trunk. STP care was evident in every
        case and reached 60 mm from the STP of the previous series. Common
        The picture is shown in the diagram for the article.
        Is it a lot or a little? From a practical point of view,
        when for the main target at distances up to 300 m
        the chest target is wrinkled, everything is in tolerance. However, if
        to put off the STP with the accuracy values in individual
        groups, it turns out that the actual accuracy of the sample due to the change of trunks deteriorates three times!"
        
        And this is replacing only one trunk! Changing the other, the heap will go altogether, hell knows where and perhaps it will require a thorough adjustment with a sight adjustment.
        
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        Yes, we have obvious problems with modular weapons, and not with designers, but with the leadership of law enforcement agencies. We hope that our Defense Ministry, or even the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, will come to their senses and pay attention to Sarych 308, the development of the Tula arms factory. Although I think this will happen not very soon, especially under the current policy and leadership of law enforcement agencies.
  2. MORDVIN13rus 27 June 2014 19: 24
    
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    Why is it sucked, this is a real situation that can happen in reality. Again, before "performing a combat mission", well, you made a barrel for a specific task at the base, under caliber 7,62, got into an alteration, retreated to the point, and hold it , here they gave you a bk, but the caliber of 5,56 or 5,45, since this is the standard caliber of your armed forces, and the delivery service was not informed that you have a different caliber of that weapon, since you changed the caliber before completing the task, and that do in this case, skedaddle to the base for removable pribluda.
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      In the modern army, the default implies the presence of communications and normally working logistics.
      If your arguments are based on the thesis that everything is always confused in our army, then continuing the logical chain, we must also fight for the abolition of the 7,62x51 caliber, on the grounds that they will be constantly sent instead of the standard 5,45.
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        I would look at you when you are in the heat of battle, eat to provide ammunition supply, and even count the calibers that you use. Simply put, we need zinc for a Kalash or PK. Logistics "implies" a single ammunition for the armed forces. And how long is 7,62x51 the caliber of the RF Armed Forces?
        
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        You know, the complication of everything in our world is inevitable. Including the complication of weapons, the complexity of logistics, the complexity of the methods of warfare. This is not like idiocy, or the machinations of the bourgeoisie, it is a reflection of the law of the universe - the closer to ideal / perfection, the harder / harder each step. Therefore, either we will learn how to deliver the right cartridges to the right place, or we will disappear in a historical perspective.
        PS: wrong, 7,62x54 of course
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"SIG Sauer" I have a Sauer smoothbore - three rings 1958 ...

what attracts the company, excellent materials, high-quality metalworking and good design ...
its products are not for mass armies .... firstly too expensive ...

from the article it is not clear ... and the automation of "SIG Sauer" is balanced ???
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  Where does balanced automation come from, the classic Kalashnikov scheme, just a revised little, clearances are reduced, hence the accuracy, but the reliability is worse, and the return spring is located around the gas piston, and not behind the bolt frame like a Kalash.
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    Yes, and the return spring is located around the gas piston, and not behind the bolt frame as in Kalash
    
    Yes, this is crap ....
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    and the barrel itself, by weight heavier than that of Kalash, also increased accuracy ..
vomag 27 June 2014 12: 22
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gas unit, which is presented with a three-position gas regulator.- even at that confuses me ....
Massik 27 June 2014 12: 26
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Most likely it differs from the usual 556 only in a more "sophisticated" design.
Intsurfer 27 June 2014 13: 45
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but is it a repeat?

http://topwar.ru/51000-novaya-modulnaya-vintovka-ot-sig-sauer.html
air wolf 27 June 2014 17: 28
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And I choose grandfather "Kalasha" Without any crap and body kits. For long-range shooting PSO-1 would be put in a backpack. The Ak-74 is certainly better, but AKM will steer for a long time.
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"The upper part of the receiver of the SIG556xi rifle is made of stainless steel ..." - even though there was a stir. My friend's SIG got rusty in two weeks of driving in the glove compartment of a car unattended. This is a pistol that costs more than $ 1000, but in essence it is a "Colt M1911", only made in Switzerland.

And why don't you announce the price for this Swiss modular "Kalash"? Everything will fall into place at once.
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video in the subject ...

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And why don't you announce the price for this Swiss modular "Kalash"? Everything will fall into place at once.

According to preliminary data, civilians will be able to purchase a SIG556xi rifle in the US market. Its price will be about $ 2000, although this is the price of the base model, which does not take into account the cost of a number of components. Sports and hunting clubs in the United States have already expressed a desire to purchase a series of rifles of this type for their needs.

But the entry of the European versions of this weapon from the "Sig Sauer" group will take about half a year to come. If you believe the data that became available to journalists during the exhibition "IWA 2014", held in Germany, then sales of European rifles will start in January 2015.

http://topwar.ru/51000-novaya-modulnaya-vintovka-ot-sig-sauer.html
Sergei75 27 June 2014 23: 53
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Modularity is cool! And where is the suitcase with modules that the fighter must carry with him? As in that joke about the watch and two suitcases of batteries for them ...
vkrav 28 June 2014 02: 38
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I wonder how much the modularity reflected in the reliability of the device? Trunks, the lower part of the receiver, shops ... Wouldn’t it be easier to carry a second rifle with a different cartridge?
dimasialyt 28 June 2014 10: 41
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It seems that the article is a creative revision of an advertising booklet. With the insertion of clever words. Whoever holds the barrel in his hands, that will be more interesting.
dimasialyt 28 June 2014 10: 51
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On an intergalactic spaceship with her, of course, it's great to plow monsters !!! But near Lugansk somewhere, face in the mud ...
jonh 28 June 2014 20: 11
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very similar to the good old ar-18 from ArmaLite only in a new wrapper and with additional twists
Pazifist87 2 July 2014 10: 05
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"The upper receiver of the SIG556xi rifle is made of stainless steel, which has been specially machined."

Is this milling? Or before that they sawed in a manual file))

Since when is an extra mech. processing has become a virtue?
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Interesting rifle. I really liked her predecessor.