A stop at Vltor's booth yesterday led me to check out the company's new SCAR handguard extension, designed to keep warfighters' hands from burning.
Vltor officials said they developed the product after receiving several requests from military personnel who have used the Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle, built by FN Herstal. Vltor says the frequent gripe is that the standard handguard isn't long enough.
The photograph above shows one handguard extension mounted to a SCAR, adding about two inches of protection near the barrel of the rifle. The second black piece lying above the SCAR is an even longer extension that provides another three inches of handguard on top of the two-inch extension mounted to the weapon pictured.
Vltor folks say they don't have pricing yet on the item, and haven't included it in their media kit of 2011 items.
