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The other two threads got archived. Hopefully this one does better. 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta    Attached File    |
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Originally Posted By TCBA_Joe: I'll toggle the archive on this if you want to keep compiling. I don't remember seeing the part 1. @TCBA_Joe, that would be awesome if you could do that. Sometimes it goes months in-between posts when new pictures are posted. That would be very helpful. This was the OG thread that went to archive: https://www.ar15.com/forums/armory/MCX-in-the-wild-pics/45-508229/ |
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Originally Posted By Zerlak: These pic threads always amaze me at how much adoption the 300BLK really has obtained. There are some 5.56 MCX setups out there for sure but the vast majority appear to be a SBR 300BLK setup of some sort. Short barrel / cqb + suppressor x doorkicker = 300BLK |
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Originally Posted By Johnny_Longslide: Short barrel / cqb + suppressor x doorkicker = 300BLK Originally Posted By Johnny_Longslide: Originally Posted By Zerlak: These pic threads always amaze me at how much adoption the 300BLK really has obtained. There are some 5.56 MCX setups out there for sure but the vast majority appear to be a SBR 300BLK setup of some sort. Short barrel / cqb + suppressor x doorkicker = 300BLK Agreed, it does make for a wonderful match. Was more a comment of appreciation that multiple orgs/groups are choosing a suppressed 300blk SBR setup over doing a full size MP5/suppressed direction in 9mm. Seems the MCX is the MP5 killer and not the MPX. |
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Originally Posted By Zerlak: Agreed, it does make for a wonderful match. Was more a comment of appreciation that multiple orgs/groups are choosing a suppressed 300blk SBR setup over doing a full size MP5/suppressed direction in 9mm. Seems the MCX is the MP5 killer and not the MPX. The MCX was developed as an MP5 killer for professional end users at their request following trials with the Honeybadger. The MPX was a sub developed project as an MP5 replacement for agencies that wouldn't adopt 300 and wanted to stick with pistol calibers. Essentially you can "kill" the MP5 in 2 ways. Have a better product in that category. Or shooter that the category itself is obsolete. The MCX development was pretty cool |
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Originally Posted By TCBA_Joe: The MCX was developed as an MP5 killer for professional end users at their request following trials with the Honeybadger. The MPX was a sub developed project as an MP5 replacement for agencies that wouldn't adopt 300 and wanted to stick with pistol calibers. Essentially you can "kill" the MP5 in 2 ways. Have a better product in that category. Or shooter that the category itself is obsolete. The MCX development was pretty cool Originally Posted By TCBA_Joe: Originally Posted By Zerlak: Agreed, it does make for a wonderful match. Was more a comment of appreciation that multiple orgs/groups are choosing a suppressed 300blk SBR setup over doing a full size MP5/suppressed direction in 9mm. Seems the MCX is the MP5 killer and not the MPX. The MCX was developed as an MP5 killer for professional end users at their request following trials with the Honeybadger. The MPX was a sub developed project as an MP5 replacement for agencies that wouldn't adopt 300 and wanted to stick with pistol calibers. Essentially you can "kill" the MP5 in 2 ways. Have a better product in that category. Or shooter that the category itself is obsolete. The MCX development was pretty cool Definitely a lot of cool stuff around the original HALO program |
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Originally Posted By pettifogger: I take that to mean that the Honeybadger wasn't satisfactory? Any details on that? Originally Posted By pettifogger: I take that to mean that the Honeybadger wasn't satisfactory? Any details on that? No idea. You'd have to ask JSOC. Everything I've seen, heard, and read was that honeybadger was a COTS proof of concept. To acquire a weapon system, they needed a program of record with stated requirements and an open competition. Originally Posted By coregon: Definitely a lot of cool stuff around the original HALO program HALO... That is a name I haven't heard in a long time (in this context). |
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Originally Posted By TCBA_Joe: What's what mean? Originally Posted By TCBA_Joe: Originally Posted By BLKY: Yeah what's that mean? I searched it but couldn't find anything substantial What's what mean? I would assume he meant the HALO program. I'm about 90% certain you and Coregon weren't referring to this in regard to parachutes. |
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Originally Posted By rb889: I would assume he meant the HALO program. I'm about 90% certain you and Coregon weren't referring to this in regard to parachutes. HALO was the original program name at SIG for the MCX/LVAW program. Essentially it started as a highly modify 516 but then morphed so many times in so many iterations it shares nothing in common with its ancestor. HALO was developed to answer LVAW but then turned into a whole system... From an MP5 replacement to a standard issue carbine replacement. I think that was a huge selling point in its ultimate victory. It was spun off into the MPX and the rifle was renamed the MCX. Past that, there really won't be much info on early MCX/HALO until Vickers Guide releases an MCX book in 20 years. |
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Soldier Systems has a good preview of the original HALO offering from 2013: https://soldiersystems.net/2013/05/16/sofic-sig-sauer-halo/ And better pictures from the same event: https://defensereview.com/sig-sauer-mcx-mission-configurable-weapon-system-dual-pistonop-rod-5-56x45mm-nato-and-7-62x39mm-russian-ar-15-with-integral-suppressor-introduced-at-ndia-sofic-2013-photos/ |
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Originally Posted By ThatGuy01: Soldier Systems has a good preview of the original HALO offering from 2013: https://soldiersystems.net/2013/05/16/sofic-sig-sauer-halo/ And better pictures from the same event: https://defensereview.com/sig-sauer-mcx-mission-configurable-weapon-system-dual-pistonop-rod-5-56x45mm-nato-and-7-62x39mm-russian-ar-15-with-integral-suppressor-introduced-at-ndia-sofic-2013-photos/ Those articles from SOFIC 2013 are about the only info you'll find on the OG stuff, outside of internally at SIG. |
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Originally Posted By tranzformer: I’ll buy one of the first prints. Originally Posted By tranzformer: Originally Posted By TCBA_Joe: Past that, there really won't be much info on early MCX/HALO until Vickers Guide related am MCX book in 20 years. I’ll buy one of the first prints. I hate when I get quoted and my post contains obviously bad grammar and spelling 
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So I guess only one person was allowed to pose with a rifle? Kinda odd but cool that he's rocking a Virtus. |
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Originally Posted By voodochild: So I guess only one person was allowed to pose with a rifle? Kinda odd but cool that he's rocking a Virtus. Originally Posted By voodochild: So I guess only one person was allowed to pose with a rifle? Kinda odd but cool that he's rocking a Virtus. Interesting stock. 
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Originally Posted By SpyHawk: MCX leaving Kabul (CAG/Delta) https://i.imgur.com/5vdo5vc.jpg MCX back in Kabul (Danish SOF) https://i.imgur.com/1RP8Ngi.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Q8u8CqB.jpg Seeing more and more CAG guys using the MCX platform in pictures. Also I didn't know the Danish Jaeger Corps had adopted the MCX as well. That's cool. |
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Originally Posted By tranzformer: https://i.ibb.co/dmgbtMQ/A600238-D-9-A00-472-C-9-FC5-EC7-BFFFF5262.jpg I know it might be an optical illusion, but that one of the left looks longer than a regular LVAW to me. Sort of like a SURG upper instead of an LVAW upper. |
| ^ I haven’t seen a bunch of those either. Just makes you realize how many units around the globe have adopted the MCX platform. Helps one understand the limited supply for the consumer market as Sig tries to meet all the demand they have for it. I’m sure plenty of other units are in the process of considering it as well. |
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