Manroy USA firearms?

[Slater]

From today's DoD contract awards:

Colt Defense LLC, West Hartford, Conn. (W15QKN-14-D-0024), and Manroy USA, Spindale, N.C. (W15QKN-14-D-0025), were awarded a $54,491,305 firm-fixed-price contract for the M4 replacement barrel and front sight assembly (heavy variant) for the M4 Carbine Product Improvement Program. The M4 replacement barrel will be combined with other weapon components to form a single modification work order kit to convert fielded M4 carbines to M4A1 carbines. Funding and work location will be determined with each order. Estimated completion date is Feb. 27, 2018. Bids were solicited via the Internet with six received. Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity.


Had never heard of Manroy before this, but evidently they're a manufacturer of small arms systems. Anyone familiar?

[DreadPirateMoyer]

From today's DoD contract awards:

Colt Defense LLC, West Hartford, Conn. (W15QKN-14-D-0024), and Manroy USA, Spindale, N.C. (W15QKN-14-D-0025), were awarded a $54,491,305 firm-fixed-price contract for the M4 replacement barrel and front sight assembly (heavy variant) for the M4 Carbine Product Improvement Program. The M4 replacement barrel will be combined with other weapon components to form a single modification work order kit to convert fielded M4 carbines to M4A1 carbines. Funding and work location will be determined with each order. Estimated completion date is Feb. 27, 2018. Bids were solicited via the Internet with six received. Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity.


Had never heard of Manroy before this, but evidently they're a manufacturer of small arms systems. Anyone familiar?

Perhaps Manroy is the mysterious "W" or "M" that has been on appearing on Colt barrels as of late? Since this contract is a barrel order and all.

[discreet]

Perhaps Manroy is the mysterious "W" or "M" that has been on appearing on Colt barrels as of late? Since this contract is a barrel order and all.

http://www.manroy-usa.com/

Looks like they are more in the 7.62 & .50BMG barrel world.

[DreadPirateMoyer]

Their website also lists M4s/M16s as products, but regardless of what their website says, they obviously have some kind of relationship with Colt and 5.56 barrels. Seems a good guess that the M-marked Colt barrels might have something to do with with Manroy.

[Slater]

Manroy USA appears to be a subsidiary of a UK-based company:

http://www.manroy.com/default.html

[dewatters]

Manroy USA was formed after Manroy PLC bought out Sabre Defence Industries.

[Cincinnatus]

http://www.manroy-usa.com/
So these guys took over Sabre Defense?
Anybody know anything else about them?
I heard, but cannot confirm, that they have a process for making a barrel with melonite or NiB in the actual metal itself, yielding a Rockwell hardness of much greater than a normal CHF or button-rifled 4150 barrel.
Would that lead to greater barrel life? Less gas port and throat erosion?

[dewatters]

The wacky thing is that Manroy USA was bought out last year by a new group of investors calling itself Sabre Defence Industries, Inc. A couple of months later, Manroy USA's former minority shareholder, Manroy PLC, was bought out by FN Herstal.

[Hank6046]

When you look up Manroy USA's address Diamondback Tactical (an armor company not the firearms) appears. So I'm guessing that together they make up Sabre Industries.

[Slater]

Interesting that their M16 rifles have a 1:9 twist.

[Hank6046]

A lot of what Sabre produced for the civilian market was 1/9 back in the day, interested to know if these were left over from the acquisition or new.