Another tidbit from the PEO Soldier roundtable yesterday was the revelation that the Army might just go ahead an procure more than 2,500 of the new "rebuilt" XM2010 enhanced sniper rifles for the ...

PEO Soldier has posted some imagery of the new/rebuilt XM2010 sniper rifle designed to replace the M24/Remington Model 700. We reported on this a few months ago and there was a bit of a spike in the ...

The Soviets exploded their first nuclear weapon in 1949. China revealed plans for its own stealth bomber last year. But there are still some weapons the rest of the world doesn't have. Weapons like ...

Military Times staffer Colin Kelly shot a down and dirty tour of the Army's latest sniper system, the XM2010. He made this video for GearScout over in Afghanistan with help from U.S. Army sniper ...

Reports last month suggest that the U.S. Army may expand the XM2010 sniper upgrade to include all 2,500 M24 Sniper Rifle Systems. The original plan called for 400-500 upgrades, with weapons allocated ...

April 28, 2011: Four months after arriving in Afghanistan for evaluation, the U.S. Army's new XM2010 sniper rifle has been so popular that production has been speeded up. Last December, American army ...

A chiropractor could have made a small fortune with all the rubbernecking that took place at the Remington booth. Most whiplash was attributable to the team's sniper rifle display that stacked the ...

December 20, 2010: The U.S. Army has delivered, to troops in Afghanistan, 250 upgrade kits for their M24 bolt-action sniper rifles. These kits converts the M24s to the more powerful XM2010 sniper ...

In 2011, US army snipers will be outfitted with the XM2010 rifle, capable of hitting a target from a 3,937-foot distance — about three quarters of a mile. The current sniper rifle, the M-24, has a ...

The terrain in Afghanistan isn't very friendly for U.S. troops. In the mountainous east near the Pakistan border, insurgents positioned at the peaks open fire on soldiers' outposts in the valleys, ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Oct. 15, 2010) -- The Army expects to field the new sniper rifle, the XM2010, by January. And conversion kits for the M4 rifle will come next year. A panel of program ...