BF2S Forums What are the current US infantry weapons used in Iraq?

Oh... So the good old stuff is still in use, eh? Anyway, I saw some weird guns with handles under the barrel just like SCAR's have, in news fotage... Perhaps the troops in question were a part of some special unit then.

Oh, I think I was confusing the M16A4 (image below) with the SCAR's. Sorry - didn't know that they came with a handle under the barrel.

woo neat rifle!
think SCARs are still in development process, just like the OICW. theres the RL pic of it already but i dun think its being mass produced yet.

Be advised, that the current M-16 is a far cry from the POS that was introduced in Vietnam.  The first M-16s had numerous problems with ammunition and jamming etc.  The ammunition problem was fixed and all of the issues with the weapon itself have been addressed (I believe the latest mod of the M-16 is the A4 - but the most numerous is the A2 - which dealt with the most serious problems).  What you have now in the M-16s and M-4s is a very good weapon system, with not nearly as many problems as it had when it was first introduced.  When you hear people trash talk the M-16 and its derivatives, they are talking about the original weapon, and the bad reputation it made for itself - not the mature current version which is quite good.

I understand that some members of Military Shooting teams have problems with the SCAR which could hold it up, if not knock it out, as a replacement for the M-16.  This is just hearsay (although from the mouth of a competetive military shooter) and not official.  I have never fired one myself

Last edited by whittsend (2006-03-09 11:24:43)

Don't forget the M-203 grenade launcher attachment that many of you love!

Who needs small arms? Just for for the good ol' M-198 howitzer. No town, no fuss! Of course, they're being replaced by the M-777's...

Ok, the guy talking about the (X)M8, the project's RFP (Request for Proposal) has currently been binned by the army for the time being. Regarding the M14s, the USMC use the M21 DMR which is a semi only M14 that has a McMillan DMR stock. M14s are still awesome for the Designated Marksman Role. Hell, if the army is still issuing a design that originated in 1965 (M16 series) than the M14 is good to go as well (since it has had several improvements over time as well).

your right cant forget about the m-203 but you know what, they re-issued the good ole thumper M-79 to us right before we went to Iraq and mossberg 12 gauge.....yeah thats it i think but I cant forget about my bushmaster 25mm.  I was mechanized.  and the M231 port firing weapon too, fastest rate of fire in our arsenal for small arms.  You gotta fire it wearing some heating mittens and the magazine will be expent in like 2 seconds.  Spray and pray

I saw a few M-79's with the grunts while I was in Iraq. Us gun-rocks (artillery) kept the 203. I guess someone higher up decided it wasn't necessary, seeing that my battery alone had 5 50 cals, 4 Mk-19's, 8 SAWs and 5 240G's. Oh, and 6 155mm M-198 howitzers. I guess a singular loading 40mm grenade launcher is a bit useless after all that...

Semper Fi my fellow Marines. Hell, even fellow service members. Oo-motherf*ckin'- rah.

Last edited by DeadboyUSMC (2006-03-09 16:31:33)

DeadboyUSMC wrote:

I saw a few M-79's with the grunts while I was in Iraq. Us gun-rocks (artillery) kept the 203. I guess someone higher up decided it wasn't necessary, seeing that my battery alone had 5 50 cals, 4 Mk-19's, 8 SAWs and 5 240G's. Oh, and 6 155mm M-198 howitzers. I guess a singular loading 40mm grenade launcher is a bit useless after all that...

Semper Fi my fellow Marines. Hell, even fellow service members. Oo-motherf*ckin'- rah.

gotta love a fellow redleg, even if he IS a leatherneck!  WE were using M109A6s.  Heavy all the way!  Never walk when you can ride.


Oh, and most units operating in urban areas detached theri Mk-19s and put on extra M2 .50 cals.  The problem was that the grenades had a 50 meter arming distance, so they just made for really BIG bullets that could blow up, or not, any time after you shot.  And when they DID explode in town, there might be... other casualties.

Where did we get the extra M2s?  We dug them up in TAJI, an Iraqi airbase northwest of Baghdad.  They were buried, still in cosmoline.  US issue M2 HB Machineguns, with Kingdom of Jordan stamps on them from when we sold them to Jordan.  How they turned up unopened in Iraq?  Feel free to speculate.

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

Immortal I was at taji too when were you there....dont forget the thousands of rounds of french artillery shells

Or new Russian 7.62mm ammuniton?  German AA missiles? lmao  Where and when?  who were you with?  HHB 3-16 FA TF Thunder 2BCT 4ID  APR- SEP 03

Baqubah, Balad, Ar Rashidiah.   I have been all over the Diala Province.

they really built Taji up since you were gone, I can only imagine how much its improved since I left

7th 1st!  11b we are the only sole infantry battalion in the 7th cav.  M2A3 bradleys but we had a company of 3-8 tankers with us.  They moved 2-7 to ft bliss when we got back.  Tarmiya bad bad place.  Remeber the mosque on the corner of highway 1 (tampa) and route coyote (dont know if you guys gave us those names or made them ourselves, i was just a Joe.