just been reading an artical on the new? up grades. the vltor emod A5 stock and a floating guard and sling.
question, what guard are they looking at? and has it come in yet?
cheers kiwiaug

VLTOR key mod VIS.

can you get those guards?  cannot find on there web site.

has this set up been adopted yet?

Still prototype and no adopted. Do a google image search.

damn. Nice rifle!

The Marine Corps was working on a PIP to the A4, it was not the A5.

Here's my version of the A5. Has the A5 buffer system but not the emod stock and I haven't decided which ff rail I want to go with yet.


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I keep wondering when they will finally ditch the 20" barrel, at least they are almost ready for a collapsible stock, it's only late 2013.  This in a 16" would be a great issue carbine for the USMC IMO.

They invented the M4, why would they need a new carbine?

They don't, they need to issue the M4s to the grunts instead of saddling them with a musket to deal with while wearing armor.  Instead, they give M4s to NCOs and officers while the privates are kicking in doors with an A2 stock and a 20" barrel.  That they make it work is a testament to the individual Marines, far from ideal though and why?  Sure, I was wrestling with an A2 stock and 20" barrel in CQB as well...in the early 90s!

If they insist on being different, an A5 with a 16" midlength gas would be a good compromise in a general issue carbine of velocity, reliability, accuracy and maneuverability.  I don't personally see a reason for there to be anything other than the M4 until a next-gen small arm is introduced.

Approx half the guns in a victor battalion are M4s.  

The reason the A4 was chosen was its more reliable.