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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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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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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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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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Flashback Full-Auto Friday to May 2012 with our ARES-16 product family lineup! 😎👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
-One Weapon, ANY Mission!
All ARES Defense and FightLite products are manufactured from the highest grade US materials and are 100% Invented, Designed and Made in our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Full-Auto Friday! A FightLite customer turning the throttle wide open on his FightLite MCR! This appears to be a suppressor test but maybe it was simply an MCR test. Either way, both worked great…Pure American Performance! 🇺🇸
All ARES Defense and FightLite products are manufactured from the highest grade US materials and are 100% Invented, Designed and Made in our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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If you have an ARES Shrike or a FightLite MCR and are using various types of ammunition and maybe a suppressor at times, then this video is for you.
FightLite MCR Gas-Piston Operation with User Adjustable Gas Regulator Explained as well as disassembly procedure.
FightLite DFX owners stand by as we’ll be dropping a video on that system in the near future.
Kicking off the week with the best in the business…FightLite MCR! One Weapon, ANY Mission!👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Key Features:
• ”Drop-On” Lightweight Upper
• Dual-Feed, Belt or Mag
• Gas Piston Operation
• Quick-Change Heavy Barrel
• Machine Gun Chamber
• Sustained Fire Bolt and Barrel Extension
• Non-Reciprocating Charger with Folding Handle
• Compresible Feed Roller
• Belts Load in any Position
• Hinged Steel Feed Tray
• Captive Takedown Pins
• Variety of Handguards
• Variety of Barrels
• Easy to Maintain
• Rugged, Accurate, Reliable
• US Design Team with Decades of BeltFed Experience
Like ALL FightLite products, our MCR Dual-Feed upper is Manufactured with Premium US Aerospace Materials and is 100% Invented, Designed and Made in Our Great USA! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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02/27/2026
Throwback Thursday! -When Jeff Zimba published this image of a melted M4 gas tube in 2007, he already knew the solution was gas-piston operation. Reel it back a couple of years to the 2005 SHOT Show in Las Vegas and four companies were pitching new gas-piston systems for the black rifle.
1. HK introduced their “HK M4” which was later rebranded to “HK 416”.
2. POF introduced Frank DeSomma’s “P-416” piston upper.
3. Leitner-Wise introduced their LW gas piston kit which required modification to the host rifle.
4. ARES Defense (FightLite) introduced Geoffrey Herring’s “CR-4” (Carbine Reliability M4) gas piston kit, which evolved into the “GSR-35 Black Lightning” (Gas System Retrofit, AR15 + M16 + M4 = 35) and which was then rebranded as our “GXR” Gas Piston Retrifit Kit.
Where the ARES GXR Piston system departed from the other AR piston offerings is that it was a true retrofit kit that did not require any permanent modification to the host carbine. In fact, a unit armorer could swap out an M4 direct gas system and retrofit it to gas-piston operation in less than 5 minutes! The GXR increased carbine reliability in adverse conditions, permitted much more aggressive firing schedules with a much greater heat threshold over DI gas systems, significantly reduced receiver and BCG fouling especially when used in conjunction with suppressors, and returned M4 cycle rates to a more manageable RPM by overriding eroded gas ports with an internal gas regulating or***ce.
In 2007, ARES Defense briefly licensed the GXR patent rights to Bushmaster Fi****ms whom had just been acquired by Cerberus Capital Management. One of the requisites imposed by Cerberus/Bushmaster was a 6,000 round endurance test of the GXR which was jointly carried out in Maine by Bushmaster armorer Ben Glass and ARES CEO Geoffrey Herring. A couple of the images here are from that event.
As pioneers of gas-piston systems for the AR15/M16/M4, we know without reservation that hard use carbines and machine guns benefit from gas-piston systems which is why we implement outside venting piston systems in all of our “hard use” products.
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PO Box 120789
Melbourne, FL
32912