{"id":102942,"date":"2026-10-09T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102942"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:09:05","slug":"cmar-canadas-newest-service-rifle-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/cmar-canadas-newest-service-rifle-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"CMAR &#8211; Canada&#8217;s Newest Service Rifle &#8211; 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oCo-eqot_NI?si=86NYAi4viXu0xZUB\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Josh Bortolotti<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 5 Jun 2026  <\/p>\n<p>Connaught Range Primary Training Centre<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Army is in the final stages of testing for the C25 General Service Rifle, the first weapon being delivered by the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle project. Since awarding the contract to Colt Optics to provide the 1-6x LPVO, key stakeholders are brought out to Connaught Range to fire the weapon from differing distances and provide feedback. Some members of the Army Headquarters also got the opportunity afterwards to have a familiarization shoot with the C25 and C26.<\/p>\n<p>C25 General Service:<br \/>\nColt MRR 5.56x45mm (13.7&#8243; barrel)<br \/>\nColt Optics 1-6x Low Power Variable Optic (LPVO)<br \/>\nMillbrook Strategic Sciences Multi-Function Muzzle Device (MFMD)<br \/>\nMagpul Back Up Sights and Furniture<\/p>\n<p>C26 Full Spectrum:<br \/>\nColt MRR 5.56x45mm (15.7&#8243; barrel)<br \/>\nColt Optics 1-10x Low Power Variable Optic (LPVO)<br \/>\nMillbrook Strategic Sciences Multi-Function Muzzle Device (MFMD)<br \/>\nMagpul Back Up Sights and Furniture<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Bortolotti Published 5 Jun 2026 Connaught Range Primary Training Centre The Canadian Army is in the final stages of testing for the C25 General Service Rifle, the first weapon being delivered by the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle project. Since awarding the contract to Colt Optics to provide the 1-6x LPVO, key stakeholders are brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5,663],"tags":[31,448,49],"class_list":["post-102942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-military","category-weapons","tag-army","tag-canadianforces","tag-guns"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qMm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102943,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102942\/revisions\/102943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}