Objective Individual Combat Weapon

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The Objective Individual Combat Weapon (OICW) was the next-generation service rifle competition under development as part of the United States Army OICW program; the program was discontinued without bringing the weapon out of the prototype phase. The acronym OICW is often used to refer to the entire weapons program. It started in the aftermath of the Advanced Combat Rifle (ACR) during the 1980s. Like the ACR program, it has been a failure in terms of specific program goals (e.g., replacing the M16) and has cost millions of dollars, but has resulted in innovative weapons and weapon concepts as well as offshoot programs of its own.

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