A soldier’s weight can be the difference between winning and exposing and the Army’s new push to get the M7 rifle and M250 automatic rifle on the battlefield is changing that calculus with a new 6.8mm ...

One pound doesn’t seem like a lot until it’s on a soldier’s shoulder for miles. That was the plain-spoken criticism in the field that forced Sig Sauer to trim as much as 10 percent from the Army’s new ...