(McLean, VA — September 10, 2025) FN America, LLC, is happy to announce that the corporate has been awarded an extra $6.9m in orders for M240 and M249 machine gun barrels unfold throughout 9 deliveries by the U.S. Division of Protection’s (DoD) Protection Logistics Company (DLA) Land and Maritime.
“The contract to supply these barrels for M240 and M249 machine weapons is a testomony to our partnership with the U.S. DoD, which dates again practically 5 a long time,” stated Mark Cherpes, President and CEO for FN America, LLC. “We’re honored to help the U.S. navy with the highest-quality chilly hammer-forged barrels. The sturdiness and accuracy of FN barrels present our servicemen and ladies with the simplest and highest-performing merchandise accessible.”
FN collaborates with and is a key accomplice of DLA Land and Maritime, a fight help company throughout the U.S. DoD and one of many largest suppliers of spare components that help land-based and maritime weapon methods. DLA Land and Maritime serves over 20,000 clients all through all U.S. navy branches, civil businesses and different DoD organizations, serving to to maintain weapon methods within the subject.
The M240 common function machine gun, derived from the FN MAG® 58, was adopted by the U.S. navy within the late Seventies, and has been in continuous service since being launched. FN has created a number of variants of the M240, together with the M240 coaxial, the M240B, M240L, M240D and M240H fashions. The FN® M249 has been a mainstay all through the U.S. navy since 1986 and is presently in service in additional than 30 nations.
All through its historical past, FN has been one of many largest suppliers of small arms to the U.S. navy and continues to develop revolutionary know-how for the long run. Along with the M240 and its variants, the corporate presently holds contracts for the FN® M249 light-weight machine gun; the FN® MK 46, MK 48, MK 17 and MK 20 SSR for USSOCOM; and varied different contracts.
For extra details about FN’s navy product line or present U.S. navy contracts, please go to www.fnamerica.com.
About FN
FN America, LLC—the U.S. subsidiary of Belgium-based FN Herstal, S.A.—offers U.S. navy, regulation enforcement and business clients with an entire vary of state-of-the-art, groundbreaking options developed round small-caliber firearms and related ammunition below the FN model identify.
FN Herstal is the Protection & Safety entity of the FN Browning Group that additionally features a Looking & Sports activities Capturing entity (Browning and Winchester Firearms* model names) and operates globally.
FN product strains embody moveable firearms, much less deadly methods, built-in weapon methods for air, land and sea purposes, distant weapon stations, small-caliber ammunition, in addition to fashionable and cutting-edge options to supply enhanced fight, logistics, upkeep and communication capabilities.
Along with FN America—headquartered in McLean, VA, with manufacturing operations in Columbia, SC—FN Herstal is the father or mother firm of FN UK within the UK and Noptel (optoelectronics) in Finland.
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