SIG SAUER is extraordinarily excited to announce the acquisition of Normal Robotics, one of many world’s premier producers of light-weight distant weapon stations and tactical robotics for manned and unmanned platforms and anti-drone functions. Just lately, the U.S. Military chosen the SIG SAUER light-weight machine gun (XM250), automated rifle (XM7), and high-pressure hybrid ammunition for the Subsequent Era Squad Weapons (NGSW) program, representing a historic step ahead in weapons know-how. The NGSW program is at the moment within the early levels of adoption and the U.S. Military will discipline the weapons on the squad degree in 2023. In January 2023, a Normal Robotics PITBULL RCWS took half in an indication throughout SIG Vary Day in Las Vegas. It was fitted on Polaris All Terrain Automobile, which was additionally outfitted with SIG SAUER’s XM250 machine gun.
Ron Cohen, President and CEO, SIG SAUER, Inc. stated, “This acquisition will drastically improve SIG SAUER’s rising portfolio of superior weapon methods. The workforce at Normal Robotics is main the best way within the improvement of intuitive, light-weight distant weapon stations with their battle-proven resolution. The mix of the Normal Robotics distant weapons station with SIG SAUER’s light-weight squad weapons and high-pressure hybrid ammunition will revolutionize small arms for army forces worldwide. This acquisition exponentially will increase the capabilities of our light-weight weapon methods delivering transformative developments in mobility, higher lethality and battle-tested power safety for at this time’s warfighters”
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“Normal Robotics and all our workers are honored to hitch forces with international protection chief SIG SAUER to combine our platforms right into a single resolution to help army models around the globe,” concluded Shahar Gal, CEO, Normal Robotics.
Normal Robotics develops the most recent model of its PITBULL Distant Management Weapon Station (RCWS), with enhanced AI-driven capabilities, which can allow armored automobiles and unmanned platforms to achieve substantial enchancment in situational consciousness, response charge, and firepower. GENERAL ROBOTICS was established by Mr. Ehud Gal, who has huge expertise creating superior applied sciences for the Israel Ministry of Protection. Following an harm to Mr. Gals’ son-in-law, whereas serving within the Particular Forces, Mr. Gal determined to embark on a non-public journey specializing in applied sciences to save lots of lives of particular forces – and Normal Robotics was born. Since then, GENERAL ROBOTICS has constantly developed methods to be despatched into essentially the most harmful areas earlier than people are required to take action. At this time, these methods are in operational use by particular forces across the globe, together with within the elite unit the place Mr. Gal’s son-in-law had served.
The 12 months was 1853 when three males, Friedrich Peyer im Hof, Heinrich Moser, and Conrad Neher based a wagon firm in Switzerland and entered the world of producing modern wagons and railway automobiles. Out of wagon wheels and prepare automobiles got here the Prelaz-Burnand rifle, which gained the army contract and redirected this firm into constructing firearms, altering the entity and the title to Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft, also called SIG. From there, this modern firearm producer went on to develop a number of weapons for army use. Within the Seventies, this European-born firm expanded into rifles as soon as once more by partnering with Hämmerli Goal Arms from Lenzburg, Switzerland, and J.P. Sauer & Sohn, GmbH, of Eckernförde, West Germany, and hit the shores of the USA in 1985 as SIG ARMS, Inc. In 2007, this new American-based agency modified its title to Sig Sauer Firearms, subsequently transferring to a brand new state-of-the-art headquarters and manufacturing facility in Newington, NH in 2014.
