New Marine Corps weapon to replace SAW

[adamjp]

I think someone is trying to recreate the BAR in a modern version.

In an American context the BAR, British Commonwealth would say it is the BREN (or Vickers K).

Either way, it was a design adaptation necessary at the time, but made obsolete by the disintegrating link fielded with the MG42. I once had the opportunity to use the MG3 machine guns we had supplied as part of the Leopard tank buy in the mid-1970s. They were a well thought out, stripped down to just enough, version of what a MMG should be.