The Army is changing the fitness test for all soldiers. On Monday, the Army announced it was replacing the Army Combat Fitness Test with the Army Fitness Test, AFT, according to a news release ...

The new Army Fitness Test comes after Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, ordered the elimination of lower fitness standards for women in combat roles. By Jonathan Wolfe Women in U.S. Army combat ...

Pabrade, Lithuania — Lithuania's president said Friday that he hoped for "a miracle" as he visited the site of a rescue operation to recover four missing U.S. Army soldiers from their submerged ...

He said the Army had just finished an engineering test ... with work on an anti-drone proximity round that can be fired from an Mk19 40mm belt-fed automatic grenade launcher.

Paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade fire the MK19 40mm grenade launcher at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. The Army is developing airburst options and proximity sensing in a selection ...

Originally, the MK19 grenade launcher was made to replace ... Mod 3 was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1983 and remains in service to the present day. Mounted on a tripod or on the platform of ...

Army Contracting Command received two bids for ... Practice Day/Night/Thermal training rounds are designed for the MK19 Grenade Machine Gun to allow Soldiers to carry out realistic training.

However, the pursuit of perfection continued, and by 1976 the Mod 3 emerged as the primary model, with the U.S. Army adopting it in 1983. The Mk 19 Mod 3 became the workhorse of grenade machine guns, ...

Since its first use in the 1960s, the MK-19 has remained largely unchanged while technology has improved. Though the Army still relies on the MK-19 to fulfill the requirement for an automatic grenade ...

Its armaments include an MK240 machine gun and an MK19 grenade launcher. The more offensively oriented M1128, an MGS, was first deployed by the U.S. Army in 2007. With a 105-millimeter gun ...

According to the US Army, two soldiers can set up the CWS ... with a multitude of different weaponry, including an M2, MK19, M240, M249, M134, and even a Javelin missile (which can provide ...

KONGSBERG has won an order from the U.S. Army to deliver an additional 409 CROWS remote weapon ... CROWS is designed to mount on any tactical vehicle and supports the MK19 Grenade Machine Gun, M2 .50 ...