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09/11/2026

It’s as true in 2026 as it was in 2024, and likewise if it were 1776…if you’re shipping up to Boston, you definitely need a quick change barrel! 😉👍🇺🇸

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08/28/2026

Full-Auto Friday with our FightLite MCR, the AR belt fed upper that got this party started!

Featuring mid-length gas piston operation, a 3-second quick change barrel, and the ability to feed from BOTH magazines and linked am******on at operator discretion, without tools and without any system reconfiguration!

Now in its 23rd year of continuous production, the MCR is the most widely distributed belt fed upper in the world. Fitting ANY MIL-Spec lower dating back to the 1960 Colt-Armalite 01 through today’s production M4’s and HK lowers, the FightLite MCR leaves nothing in the table!

And when it’s time for maintenance, the MCR readily field strips down to its core parts and assemblies using only a single 5.56 cartridge as the takedown tool and without any other tools required.

ALL FightLite products including our MCR are 100% Invented, Designed, and Made in Our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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08/26/2026

Who cares about 50 round and 100 round belt lifts when you can do 200 rounds plus? -FightLite MCR…the GOAT making it look easy! 😁😎

ALL FightLite products including our MCR are 100% Invented, Designed, and Made in Our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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08/26/2026

The FightLite MCR and AMG-2 weapons are the lightest and most compact, belt-fed machine guns in the world. For over 23 years, FightLite and its parent company ARES Defense have delivered tens-of-thousands of belt fed upper kits and complete weapons to users across the globe.

Key metrics that are unmatched by any other brand are:

Quick-Change, check!
Made in USA, check!
Lightweight, check!
Gas Piston, check!
Dual-Feed, check!
Firepower, check!
Accurate, check!
Rugged, check!
Reliable, check!

ALL FightLite products including our MCR and AMG series are 100% Invented, Designed, and Made in Our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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08/20/2026

Throwback Thursday to January 2012, with a brief history lesson including the origin of the term “Assault Machine Gun” which we began using as early as 2005.

Presentation by company founder and CEO Geoffrey Herring covers the ARES-16 family of weapons, all revolving around our patented upper receiver group. The ARES-16 further evolved into our MCR (Mission Configurable R***e) based on real world user preferences and feedback. Enjoy!

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All FightLite products are 100% Invented, Designed, and Made in Our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

07/04/2026

23 years ago today, the first 100-round belt was dumped from the ARES Defense Shrike 5.56 upper prototype “EXP-2” in Staffordsville, Virginia. The Shrike represents the very first ever “drop-on” belt fed upper for AR15/M16 ri**es and in fact was dual-feed, meaning it could feed from both M16 box magazines and M27-linked am******on at operator discretion. A few weeks later, the first 200-round belt (well, almost…) was sent downrange in Virginia’s Jefferson National Forest before an operating rod issue caused a thermal failure requiring a complete redesign of the Shrike upper from the ground up.

In the ensuing 23 years, ARES Defense and its FightLite division have delivered tens of thousands of belt fed uppers and weapons around the globe to civilians and military units alike.

While the legacy Shrike has evolved into the company’s flagship MCR, AMG-2, AMG-3, DFX, and RAX weapons systems, the roots of every “drop-on” belt fed upper for AR15/M16 fi****ms are direct decedents of the ARES/FightLite Shrike 5.56 - Advanced Weapons System. -Of course, only made possible in the USA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

ALL ARES Defense and FightLite products are 100% Invented, Designed, and Made in Our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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05/14/2026

Our last manufacturing video showed our new FXR production lower being broached on our 15 Ton horizontal broaching machine. With some good conversation ensuing about the various methods of getting a mag well machined into an AR type lower, here’s another way we’ve done it on a prototype lower. While most of our production manufacturing machines are Mazak, in this case we drilled the corners and rough cut it on one of our Haas machines equipped with an A-Axis to minimize fixturing. Definitely a longer way to get there than an offline broach, but plenty of ways to skin a cat! 😉

ALL FightLite products are 100% Invented, Designed and Made in our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Tactical Tuesday! Ever wonder how that magazine well shape is machined into a lower? Video is our new FXR lower being br...
05/12/2026

Tactical Tuesday! Ever wonder how that magazine well shape is machined into a lower? Video is our new FXR lower being broached on our 15 Ton horizontal broaching machine. 2nd and 3rd images show before and after rough cut vs final broached shape. 4th image is FightLite FXR mag well inlet funnel compared to standard AR lower mag inlet.

Like ALL FightLite products, our FXR lower receiver is 100% Invented, Designed and Made in our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank w...
03/24/2026

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

RAX -Stay tuned! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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03/14/2026

Happy Saturday! Sun’s out, Guns out…but only in USA! Back to the future with the ARES/FightLite AMG-1! 😎👍🇺🇸

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PO Box 120789
Melbourne, FL
32912

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