SIG M5 Spear Deep Dive: Is This a Good US Army Rifle

Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! 00:00 - Introduction 00:39 - TLDW 01:18 - NGSW history 04:11 - / .277 SIG Fury cartridge 09:14 - Suppressor 12:53 - Rifle features and disassembly 23:42 - How it handles 80k psi 28:44 - Conclusions and rollout plans The NGSW (Next Generation Squad Weapon) program began in 2017 to find a replacement for the M4, M249, and cartridge. It came to a conclusion in April 2022 with the formal acceptance of the SIG M5 rifle, M250 machine gun, Vortex M157 optic, and the cartridge. SIG released a handful of civilian semiauto M5 / Spear rifles and thanks to Illumin Arms I have one to examine. The rifle (Spear is its commercial designation; M5 is the military one) is an evolution of the SIG MCX, which is in turn an evolution of the AR-15 and AR-18 syste