{"id":107342,"date":"2020-05-20T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/socom-is-eyeing-a-fresh-6-5mm-sniper-weapon-for-longer-range-kills"},"modified":"2020-05-20T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:24:08","slug":"socom-is-eyeing-a-fresh-6-5mm-sniper-weapon-for-longer-range-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/socom-is-eyeing-a-fresh-6-5mm-sniper-weapon-for-longer-range-kills","title":{"rendered":"SOCOM is eyeing a fresh 6.5mm sniper weapon for longer-range kills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/socom-is-eyeing-a-fresh-6-5mm-sniper-weapon-for-longer-range-kills.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Special Operations Command will wait for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/army\" target=\"_blank\">Army<\/a>\u2019s 6.8mm rifle and automatic rifle, but it\u2019s moving forward to adopt a new sniper support weapon chambered in the longer-range 6.5mm Creedmoor round.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well with the Army\u2019s 6.8mm Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) effort, special-ops weapons officials plan to field both variants to units such as the 75th Ranger Regiment after the service begins its planned fielding in fiscal 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Special Operations Command will wait for the Army\u2019s 6.8mm rifle and automatic rifle, but it\u2019s moving forward to adopt a new sniper support weapon chambered in the longer-range 6.5mm Creedmoor round. If all goes well with the Army\u2019s 6.8mm Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) effort, special-ops weapons officials plan to field both variants to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}