FN SCAR assault rifle

At the end of 2003, the US Special Operations Command (US SOCOM) issued a request to manufacturers. weapons on a new modular assault rifle for US SOCOM fighters, designated as SOF Combat Assault Rifle - SCAR (combat assault rifle for special operations forces). This request contained requirements that differed from the requirements put forward a little earlier by the US Army to the new prospective XM8 assault rifle, currently being developed for the US by the German company Heckler-Koch.

After almost a year of competition in December 2004, the US SOCOM command officially announced that the system presented by the US division of the famous Belgian company FN Herstal - FNH USA Inc. won the SCAR competition. In the middle of 2005, the new rifles, which received the official designations Mark 16 / Mk.16 SCAR-L and Mark 17 / Mk.17 SCAR-H. They are already entering the operating units of the American special forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the foreseeable future, the Mk.16 and Mk.17 rifles are supposed to replace such “old” systems as the 5.56mm M4 rifles and the M16 rifles, as well as the M7.62 and MN rifles 14mm. 25 (sniper).

The SCAR shooting system includes two basic weapons - the Mk.16 SCAR-L (Light) rifle and the Mk.17 SCAR-H (Heavy) rifle. The main differences between SCAR-L and SCAR-H will be the used ammunition - SCAR-L rifles are designed only for NATO 5.56x45mm caliber cartridges (both with conventional М855 bullets and with heavier Mk.262 bullets). The SCAR-H rifles will use a much more powerful 7.62xNNXXmm NATO cartridge as a base ammunition, with the option of using other cartridges after replacing the necessary components (bolt, barrel, bottom of the receiver with a magazine receiver).
The list of "additional" calibers for SCAR-H rifles so far includes only the Soviet 7.62х39 М43 cartridge, and with this cartridge the SCAR-H rifle should use shops from AK / AKM Kalashnikovs. In both basic configurations, the SCAR rifle should have three possible configurations - the standard "S" (Standard), shortened for the close combat "CQC" (Close Quarters Combat) and the sniper "SV" (Sniper Variant).

Change of option will be carried out in the conditions of the base by replacing the barrel with the forces of the unit or gunsmith itself. In all variants, SCAR rifles will have the same device, the same controls, the same procedures for maintenance, repair and cleaning, the maximum possible interchangeability of parts and accessories. The interchangeability of parts between the variants of rifles will be about 90%. Such a modular system will provide American special forces with the most flexible weapons that can be easily adapted to any task, from close combat in the city to solving sniper shooting at medium distances (on the order of 500-600 meters).

FN SCAR rifles have automatic with a vapor engine, with a short stroke separate from the bolt carrier gas piston, located in the gas outlet block on the barrel. The butterfly valve has three lugs, locking is carried out for the breech. The receiver box consists of two halves - the upper one, in which the barrel and bolt group are installed, and the lower one, in which the magazine receiver and the trigger mechanism are installed. The lower half of the receiver is made of polymer, the top is made of aluminum. The halves are interconnected by two transverse pins in the front and rear. Barrels are interchangeable, attached to the upper half of the receiver with two transverse bolts. Barrel replacement requires a minimum of tools and takes a few minutes.

The trigger mechanism has a two-way lever for the interpreter of the fire / safety mode, which provides for firing single shots or bursts. The limiter queue length in USM FN SCAR is not provided. The cocking handle can be mounted both on the left and on the right side of the weapon, for which there are corresponding slots on both sides of the upper part of the receiver.

The rifle has a slide stop mechanism that stops the bolt in the open position when all the cartridges in the magazine are used up. Shutter lag is turned off by the button on the left side of the weapon, above the receiver of stores. The magazine release button is made on both sides of the weapon. Ejection sleeves through the window on the right side of the receiver, behind which is a reflector of spent cartridges, allowing you to fire a rifle from the left shoulder.

On the upper surface of the receiver, as well as on the forearm, on the sides and bottom, there are guides of the type Picatinny rail for fastening aiming devices and other accessories. The rifle is regularly completed with removable open sights, consisting of a folding dioptric pillar, adjustable in range, and a folding front sight. In addition, any day or night sights with the appropriate brackets can be mounted on the rifle. The stock of all variants of the FN SCAR rifle is foldable to the side. It is made of plastic and allows adjustment in length to adapt to each particular shooter. Additional accessories include a new 40mm rifle grenade launcher and a removable front handle, inside of which there is a small two-legged bipod for firing while lying with the stop.

Features
Weight, kg: 3,19 (SCAR-L CQC)
3,3 (SCAR-L STD)
3,49 (SCAR-L SV)
3,512 (SCAR-H CQC)
3,621 (SCAR-H STD)
3,72 (Scar-H SV) without a store

Length, mm: 796/548 (SCAR-L CQC)
890 / 642 (SCAR-L STD)
991 / 737 (SCAR-L SV)
886 / 638 (SCAR-H CQC)
960 / 712 (SCAR-H STD)
1067 / 813 (SCAR-H SV) with folded / folded butt

Barrel length, mm: 353 (SCAR-L CQC)
351 (SCAR-L STD)
457,2 (SCAR-L SV)
330 (SCAR-H CQC)
406 (SCAR-H STD)
508 (SCAR-H SV)

Cartridge: 5,56 × 45 mm NATO (SCAR-L)
7,62 × 51 mm NATO (SCAR-H)

Caliber, mm: 5,56 (SCAR-L)
7,62 (SCAR-H)
Principles of operation: removal of powder gases, butterfly valve

Rate of fire, rounds / min: 600-650 (SCAR-L)
575 — 625 (SCAR-H)

Muzzle velocity, m/s: 875 (SCAR-L)
802 (SCAR-H)

Maximum
range, m: 600 (effective for sniper version)

Type of ammunition: detachable box magazine for:
30 (SCAR-L)
20 (SCAR-H) cartridges
Sight: removable diopter, there is a Picatinny rail for mounting various sights

Comments

[PSih2097]

Who will explain - why on a sniper tactical pen?
And so the barrel is even nothing ...

7.62mm NATO FN SCAR-H / Mk.17 caliber rifles current release (2007/2008), top down options with a long barrel (LB), standard barrel (Std) and close combat option (CQC)

The SCAR shooting system includes two basic weapons - the Mk.16 SCAR-L (Light) rifle and the Mk.17 SCAR-H (Heavy) rifle. The main differences between SCAR-L and SCAR-H will be the used ammunition - SCAR-L rifles are designed only for NATO 5.56x45mm caliber cartridges (both with conventional М855 bullets and with heavier Mk.262 bullets). The SCAR-H rifles will use a much more powerful 7.62xNNXXmm NATO cartridge as a base ammunition, with the option of using other cartridges after replacing the necessary components (bolt, barrel, bottom of the receiver with a magazine receiver).

The list of "additional" calibers for SCAR-H rifles so far includes only the Soviet 7.62х39 М43 cartridge, and with this cartridge the SCAR-H rifle should use shops from AK / AKM Kalashnikovs. In both basic configurations, the SCAR rifle should have three possible configurations - the standard "S" (Standard), shortened for the close combat "CQC" (Close Quarters Combat) and the sniper "SV" (Sniper Variant).

1 hour of work and you have a machine gun, a sniper rifle or a short assault rifle ... (similar to AK-74M, SVD or AKS-74U)

[Tjumenec72]

and who forces the pen to put? do not put nihosh

[PSih2097]

I'm talking about this photo:

[bogdan_z]

Maybe a man used to run with M4. And dragged her by the front handle. And then he became a sniper. But the habit remained.

[ereke]

The standard SKAR army sniper rifle comes without a front handle, (first photo).
Now many companies (from the USA to Israel) manufacture a large number of accessories for the individual weapons of a soldier (tactical flashlights, laser sights, arms for holding weapons, stocks of various configurations, Picatinny rails, optical, calimator and night thermal imaging sights. Ergonomic handguards, etc. d.)
Here's an example of sniper optics from the company

Israel

If you put all this, even an old PP "Uzi" will turn into something from the future

Or the same old "galil" in the version of a sniper with accessories (butt, grips, forend and optics, a new heavy barrel, self-loading, non-automatic) It turns into elegant shorts, then bish excuse me, into a modern army sniper rifle

Or a new "Tavor"

By the way, Kalash can also be made sophisticated by the type of galil callas. 7.62x51 (galil is a copy of the Finnish valmet, which in turn is a modified copy of AKM)

So they bet on everything new. By the way, all this is made of plastic, I read it here, one of the stones they say looks fragile. Now plastic materials are close to steel in terms of strength and fire resistance. Armor even for armored vehicles is made of composite materials. An example is the "Challenger" tank in the "Chobham" armor has layers of Kevlar, plastic and ceramics. BTR m-113 in Iraq, on top of the main armor, armored modules made of ceramics were attached, such armor could withstand large-caliber KPVT hits from 100 meters. But the Ukrainian BTR-80 was fired upon by partisans from the KPVT, when the soldiers of the 80th brigade of the Ministry of Taxes and Communications, Ukrainian contract soldiers, were driving along the route. The armored personnel carrier turned into a sieve (by a lucky coincidence, it cost two wounded who were sitting in the troop compartment , was saved by the fact that inside the BTR-XNUMX was loaded to capacity with boxes of plastic bottles with drinking water)

[Tjumenec72]

PS: why post pictures? it’s not convenient to read ... we all have an Internet ourselves)

[ereke]

Yes, of course all this is superfluous. But some here do not understand what they are talking about in general or are poorly represented. How and how much and where ... In a word, they know and see everything, but in the head it is not decomposed into one logical chain and is not sorted. In a word, people mixed up in a bunch of horses ... At first I gave dry comments, only numbers and terms and statistics. But in response, there are unreal kamments like they say now, "the avatar burns" and then develops into vicious attacks (you see, you still put a comment, -that we could find without you, we just could not read it silently) so for clarity, this is how the kamment

[Tjumenec72]

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[Alexey Prikazchikov]

Oh, we would like that, my friend says that by 2013 what will happen, but when the troops reach it, well, I want to send it with all the modules, and the modular design is economically cheaper and easier to repair.

[Tjumenec72]

In my opinion, it would be better to use a complex based on one rifle - that is, without such "mobile" modularity. Well, fuck the fighter himself to change the trunks.
The complexity of the design, damage to accuracy and reliability.

[Alexey Prikazchikov]

On the contrary, simplification replaced the USM and the trunk, and all this seems to you that everything is so complicated, but I don’t want to run another 10 years

[Tjumenec72]

I'm not talking about complexity (the very procedure for replacing trunks in the field) I’m talking about, but about the complication of the general design of the machine for this very possibility. So is it really necessary?
Better are several varieties of one machine, each specialized for its own task (with the same unification of parts at the level of 80-90%)

[Alexey Prikazchikov]

The modular design leads to the reduction of the final product without losing its performance characteristics and the manufacturability of the weapon itself. All even tank builders and sailors adhere to this principle, since modern weapons have become too expensive.

[Tjumenec72]

you apparently stubbornly do not want to understand me) I AM FOR MODULARITY!
I am against this "mobile" modularity.

[PSih2097]

What do you mean by "mobile" modularity?

[ereke]

In fact, the modular design has been used since 1977 and has proven its worth. The Austrians were the first to adopt and equip their troops and police forces. They officially adopted in the late 70s for the first time a modular AUG system under the Amersk low-pulse cartridge.

At first they took an assault rifle, three types, standard,

, shortened, and greatly shortened commando for paratroopers, then a machine gun and sniper, and PP -Para. The scheme of the mechanisms is the same for all types of these weapons, only the barrels are different but interchangeable. And what is difficult to change is the trunks, spins and acts in eight revolutions, there is nothing difficult

That's the way the sniper version of AUG

And she passed the test in the war, in particular, the Australian units used it in Iraq in both the first and second war

Australian soldiers armed with AUG F 88A2 assault rifles participate in combat during Operation Desert Storm. 1991 year


Now the Russian army also wants to switch to a new type of individual small arms, replacing the outdated Kalash. Here’s a hint for which system to adopt. Modular, i.e. the mechanisms are the same for everyone, but the trunks and the number of stores are different

[Tjumenec72]

Thanks for the excursion into history, I am aware) you can also recall our OTs-14 complex)

[bogdan_z]

OTs-14 - a dream of reason. Remaking Kalash in bullpup. Shitty descent. Shitty balance. Short sighting line. Smoke in the face and eyes when using a silencer. 20 rounds in the store is a laugh. You can’t shoot from the left hand at all - the cartridges fly in the face. A good bullpup is obtained if it is done without regard to classical systems. For example: AUG, Tavor.

[valex]

Stop it sir! The first drawback of this design is the presence of a fixed optical aiming handle and the absence of an alternative sighting device. I dropped the device, broke the scope and ..... The second drawback, like all bullpups, is a store change: I shot one and you dig somewhere under with the mouse, changing. The rifle is unstable;

[Ion coaelung]

The modularity of the guns is impressive! Engineers have tried! They just didn’t specify about the operation of mechanisms in harsh conditions (dirt, sand, frost, etc.)

[Alexey Prikazchikov]

Believe skar is very reliable.

[Rawling4851]

Maybe you should buy a trial batch? After all, option H even works with a cartridge for AKM.

[Krilion]

it’s a weapon for professional fighters ... our dumb-headed shkolota, drafted into the army only a year after school, is scared to trust even a shovel - they will break it ... for our sheep and Kalash will come down ...

[Alexey Prikazchikov]

This is you to yourself ! ?????????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rumpeljschtizhen]

it’s a weapon for professional fighters ... our dumb-headed shkolota, drafted into the army only a year after school, is scared to trust even a shovel - they will break it ... for our sheep and Kalash will come down ...

it seems to me also not quite the right approach ....... neither of which is more complex than this rifle is not ... and not so dumb young

[Joker]

Strange people, you either praise AK with foam at the mouth, or give a machine to you overseas, smack of prostitution ....

[Alexey Prikazchikov]

Do not judge everyone by yourself, but personally I choose the best for shooting people like you.

[Joker]

Yes, in my opinion you do not choose anything, since they do not give you such an opportunity.

[ereke]

AK is a good machine, but its time has passed, now the world does not stand still. new technologies, equipment and weapons appeared leaps and bounds. AK was developed under the requirements of 1944-45. Then there was not in service with unguided missiles and satellite walkie-talkies. Now it is possible in the Russian Federation to develop advanced individual weapons for soldiers. And technological quality and cheap using composite materials. This has been going on since the mid-90s when gunsmiths were left to their own devices, and worked for export, when the requirements of the foreign country were put forward by the arms customer, under their conditions and clearly, systematically tested the received sample of their Russian weapons and based on the results obtained, gave further recommendations what they would like to see individual technical parameters of weapons, to the Russian defense industry. Now the Defense Ministry and the profiling statements of the Russian Federation themselves do not know what they want, putting forward one requirement after another for the weapons being developed, some contradict each other. And all the more, they don’t accept what has been done and again put forward new requirements and send them for rework, in the final analysis, the arms manufacturers are unsure of anything and whether or not they will accept their standard weapons. After all, development takes a lot of time. And by this moment when the sample is ready, there is no guarantee that the next Minister of Defense will change and put forward new requirements that exclude the previous ones. And the new model simply will not be accepted, and all the labors down the drain

[ESCANDER]

Right.
These are the current realities of the Russian defense industry.

[Joker]

It’s true, an anecdote about aliens and a Russian was heard how Russian, American and German were given 2 titanium balls, locked in the room meter by meter and said that in an hour who would surprise them more they would let them go home. So Russian was more surprised, he broke one ball, and lost the second. So here, no one will trust an expensive Russian machine, since they will either break or lose. And this is true on 1000 000% so AK is fate.

[ESCANDER]

Maybe at this stage, this is fate. But it’s not worthwhile to sculpt supermen from the Pindos, there are enough Negroes and Latinos there for their debilov.

[Joker]

But what about reliability and simplicity? This is the main argument for which you constantly praise the AK and obisit .. other weapons.

[wolverine7778]

FN SCAR is better than the M4, the German gunsmiths Heckler und Koch, like everything else German as always on top

[Joker]

Skar is an automatic machine developed by a Belgian company located in America that American engineers work on. The machine was developed by order of the US Army. At the moment, is in service with the US rangers.
H&K have nothing to do with the machine, their development HK 416, developed to replace M4. But the Americans refused it because they want to maintain their production.

[PSih2097]

The price of this barrel:
http://www.borchers.es/policial/ficha.php?cat=2&scat=5&olimit=0&id=1316
I wonder how much ours cost?

[Mister X]

Have you noticed? "Caliber: .22 lr"

And the basic version of the FN SCAR 16S (SCAR-L) costs from $ 2,700

[dred]

The rifle is cool.

[Mister X]

The evolution of FN FAL is obvious.
Keep up to date, no doubt.

[SITH]

good toy

[Isstvan]

Better Akm has not yet come up with anything!