SIG gave us an update on their SPEAR MCX line. All of these firearms were developed for the defense side and will be offered as commercial variants.
The top gun is 20” in 6.5 CM which will be offered as a commercial version with a shorter barrel.
Middle is the NGSW gun in 6.8 x 51. Plans are in the work for a commercial version in .277 SIG FURY.
Bottom is the SIG SPEAR MCX 8” which serves as a heavy version of the Rattler. It features a 8” barrel and will initially be offered in .308, followed by 6.5 CM.
8″ 308! Dang! Wonder where Brittingham is in development with his .338.
Let’s try and translate this from press release speak to English: SIG fell off the trials train and now it’s doing what True Velocity was doing about a month and a half ago, i.e. try to sell their stuff on the civilian market. If I were to have some money lying around, I would buy Textron stock right now. But what do I know, right? I’m not a financial advisor after all.
What press release?
They announced that they would be bringing variants of the SPEAR to the civilian market at the beginning of the year, so it’s not like they made this decision recently in response to a failed bid.
Also according to a recent LMT Q&A video, Textron might have just dropped out of the NGSW program. LMT was providing the suppressors for their bid.
Can you please provide links to the two announcements mentioned?
Sig announced that the MCX Spear would be coming to commercial market in this TFB TV video at 6:57: https://youtu.be/vlrBEEG__1E?t=417
The LMT Q&A video was here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqLJL9We7mY&t=1811s
However, it seems that they made it private. Sounds like they may disclosed that information without knowing that Textron hasn’t officially announced their presumed withdrawl.
I’m hoping SSD can get to the bottom of this since Textron has a presence at AUSA this week.
I have asked Textron to discuss NGSW and they have politely passed.
Did they even showcase their guns?
No, that’s what led me to inquire.
Literally The Firearms Blog did a interview with the team developers for the SIG Spear 8 months ago, back then they spoke about bring the gun to the cilivan market.
I haven’t seen anywhere they have fell off trials train.
They are still in NGSW.
I fiquared as much or you would have already commented about it if the stopped their bid on the contract.
I would be surprised if they don’t win, and to me their design make the most sense, but the Army sometimes makes you wonder. KDH plate carrier?
This is just incorrect lol
Any idea on barrel length of the Middle Rifle? Some reports for the NGSW Carbine say it is a 13in barrel, I wonder if this will be SBR or if pinned and welded muzzle device takes us to >16in.
Sig doesn’t P&W. It will most likely be 16″.
That’s seems like the same handguard as the “original” Spear so might be 13”.
Sig does offer P&W.
https://www.sigsauer.com/pinned-and-welded-sig516-gen-2-upper-receiver-assembly-complete-16-in-semi-special-configuration.html
Sig does not offer pinned and welded rifles. The referenced link is a limited run upper. It is configured for a mil/le customer’s requirements. The Sig SPEAR rifle commercial configuration will not be p&w.
I wish SIG had not used a rear charging handle. To me all 3 guns got weird design features that make me scratch my head.
The AR style charging handle was supposedly a requirement for the original LVAW project. The new Spear has two charging handles, one AR style, and one on the other side.
The AR charging handle is an optimized design that does not interfere with optics or anything on the handguard and is easily made ambidextrous like a SCAR, G3, or AK style placement might.
Operating the charging handle, especially on a reliable weapon with last round bolt hold open, is an administrative task.
Then don’t use it! There are two charging handles. It does no harm to have it there.
They have to make more refinements before this can be taken seriously. It needs a more compact round, a larger magazine, a longer standard-length barrel, a bayonet lug, and a quieter unsuppressed report.
Do you have any idea what combat since 1973 has looked like?