Comments on: SCAR Sighting!

By: colt1911guy

colt1911guy — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:24:06 +0000

The rifles are made from hard cast urathane and painted to match. Note the comment by ALAN–good eye. They were cast from a mold made off an early version MK16 MOD 0. Colors could not be molded in due to the process and FAST delivery requirement. They are part of a contract with boat teams for training-specifically in wet conditions. No reason to beat up a real weapon–especially when there were at that time very few live ones in their inventory. Each one is weighted to duplicate a loaded weapon and is very detailed. Sights are down, mag is in and forward handgrip is mounted.

By: alfa 29

alfa 29 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:16:02 +0000

it be a scar you can tell.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:17:27 +0000

Can’t you get butt stocks for m16s that are like the Scar butt stocks? If so this could just be m16s

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:00:23 +0000

I’m trying to find a bigger picture of that SCAR.
The one on the left, take a look at the around slit for the sling, and near the stock lock button, there looks to be some “paint” wear on there. The rubber buttpad is obviously going to be black; that’s not the issue. it also doesn’t make it a “two-tone” stock. What i’m curious about is the fact that the STOCK and not the buttpad seems to be painted over in tan or FDE.

By: SW1911

SW1911 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:46:15 +0000

The so called “black one painted tan” is actually a two tone stock, with the black parts mainly being the rubber pad. I thought that was pretty obvious, as would anyone whos every seen a picture of a Sand/Coyote rifle.
5 seconds on google image search finds this
http://www.techimo.com/forum/attachments/debateimo-politics-religion-controversy/21804-assault-weapon-ban-fn_scar_light_gen3_cqc_03.jpg
Anyways, the SCAR is long overdue. How long has the damn thing been in testing? I say dump all M4s/16s and issue the SCAR-L to light infantry and the SCAR-H to heavy infantry. The 308 would come in handy in Afghanistan, I’m sure.
FN makes all current M16s anyways, so it’s not like it is a huge hurdle politically.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:37:23 +0000

If you are going to post pictures of operators, at least take the time to protect their identity.
Yeah, okay, enemy forces be on the lookout for a white guy and a green guy. Could you be more paranoid?

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:23:13 +0000

@Darrel
the SCAR stands for SOF Combat Assault Rifle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_SCAR (obviously wikipedia needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but as far as i can tell this article is fairly accurate).It’s the latest “trial” weapon issued to the SOF community to replace the M4 system. It comes in an L (light) version which is the standard 5.56 and an H (heavy) which is the 7.62 version. Both versions have similar controls to the M4/M16 weapons systems.

By: Kali

Kali — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:19:05 +0000

I think we will see this weapon platform become more available with quick reaction units that won’t have as much heads up time to change gear.
According to the author, and cited source of the photo, these guys are boat crewmen and not so called “operators.” There are no secret troops, just secret missions. If a picture needs to be “blurred” to proctect identities then it should be blurred to protect missions and therefore not shown at all. This is not the case here.

By: Darrel Kemble

Darrel Kemble — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:49:28 +0000

OK!, OK—- So I’m an OLDER Vet.…..
What the H— is SCAR ????
Yes,Yes I can see it’s a rifle…!!!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:22:34 +0000

If you are going to post pictures of operators, at least take the time to protect their identity.