PCP Ammunition is asking its customers for feedback on its new .308 caliber polymer-cased ammunition. Polymer-cased ammo is an attractive concept because its much lighter than traditiona, brass-cased ...

The Marine Corps has been testing the performance of a polymer-cased .50-caliber ammunition in a lab environment, and leathernecks soon will get a chance to see how the lighter rounds hold up in the ...

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jamaury M. Jimenez, a machine gunner with Advanced Machine Gun Course (AMGC) 1-22, fires polymer rounds from a .50-caliber machine gun at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, ...

Marine Corps Cpl. Philip D. Bell, an antitank missile gunner with 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, shoots a .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a Humvee during exercise Comanche Run at Fort ...

A mechanized process attaches ammunition parts at the True Velocity manufacturing center in Garland. The company is pairing up with two other firearms makers to bid on a next-generation weapon for ...

Your next belt of .50 caliber ammunition could weigh 10 to 20 pounds less than it does now, if industry representatives are able to meet the needs of a recent Marine Corps request. (Staff Sgt. Vitaliy ...

The advantages of polymer cases presented a problem, and a major one at that. Using caseless or CTA ammo meant designing new weapons and magazines to carry the shorter ammo. Conventional ammo designs ...

WASHINGTON (March 30, 2016) -- When it comes to small caliber ammunition acquisition, many instinctively think of large ammunition production companies manufacturing massive quantities of tactical and ...

June 11, 2021: For about a decade the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army have been seeking caseless ammunition or polymer (instead of brass) cased ammunition that would work reliably in combat and be ...