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  2. Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight - Wikipedia

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    The first ACOG model, known as the TA01, was released in 1987. [3] [4] An example was tested on the Stoner 93 in the early 1990s by the Royal Thai Armed Forces. [5]In 1995, United States Special Operations Command selected the 4×32 TA01 as the official scope for the M4 carbine and purchased 12,000 units from Trijicon. [6]

  3. C79 optical sight - Wikipedia

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    M145 Machine Gun Optic fitted to a M240B machine gun. The M145 Machine Gun Optic is a variant of the C79 that was developed for the U.S. Army and is commonly mounted on M240 and M249 machine guns. The M145 is unusual when compared with other optical sights in use with the United States military in that ballistic compensation is in the mount ...

  4. Sniper equipment - Wikipedia

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    The M40A3, a bolt-action sniper rifle used by the United States Marine Corps.Introduced in 1966, the M40 was built up from a Remington 700 bolt-action rifle.. The major components of sniper equipment are the precision sniper rifle, various optical scopes and field glasses, specialized ammunition and camouflage materials for the sniper’s body and equipment.

  5. SC-76 Thunderbolt - Wikipedia

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    Tactical day scope & rings, Night vision & LADS, Infra-red & TI sight The SC-76 Thunderbolt is a bolt-action sniper rifle manufactured by British company Steel Core Designs . [ 2 ] It feeds from a detachable box magazine which holds 10 rounds of either .308 Winchester , or more commonly, 7.62x51mm NATO . [ 3 ]

  6. List of Colt AR-15 and M16 rifle variants - Wikipedia

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    The Canadian company Colt Canada (formerly Diemaco) licensed production of a rifle (Colt Model 715) and carbine (Colt Model 725), but later went on to produce an entire line of AR-15/M16 pattern weapons developed independently. In May 2005, Colt's Manufacturing Company acquired Diemaco, and the name was changed to Colt Canada.

  7. List of the United States Army fire control and sighting ...

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    This is a list of United States Army fire control, and sighting material by supply catalog designation, or Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group "F".The United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalog used an alpha-numeric nomenclature system from about the mid-1920s to about 1958.

  8. PSO-1 - Wikipedia

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    The telescopic sight proprietary mount is adjustable for tension on the SVD rifle's side rail scope mount. This side rail is a type of dovetail rail known as the Warsaw Pact rail, which has cut-out portions to reduce weight and allow easier installation. The side rail mount is an offset mounting that positions the PSO-1 telescopic sight axis to ...

  9. M24 sniper weapon system - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Army reconfigured their M24 rifles to M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifles rechambering the original M24 rifles to .300 Winchester Magnum. The USMC M40A3 uses a 25 inches (635 mm) Schneider barrel and the U.S. Army M24 used a 24 inches (610 mm) Rock Creek 5R barrel.