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All metal-linked ammunition was reserved for the Army Air Force and Naval Aviation. When the US Army Air Force .30-caliber machine gun was superseded by the .50-caliber machine gun mid-war, all .30-caliber ammunition began to be belted in M1 250-round belts for infantry use or M3 100-round woven belts for use in vehicles and tanks.
Cartridge, Blank, C79 [Crimped tip]: 5.56×45mm blank cartridge used in the C7, C8 and C9 type weapons. Also made by General Dynamics Canada. Also made by General Dynamics Canada. France
5.56×45mm NATO ammunition linked by M27 links M27 links connect up to 200 5.56×45m NATO rounds contained in an ammunition box used to feed a M249 light machine gun A cloth pouch capable of holding 200 M27 rounds
The table below gives a list of firearms that can fire the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, first developed and used in the late 1970s for the M16 rifle, which to date, is the most widely produced weapon in this caliber. [1]
The gun was designed to be a personal security detail pistol. The LWRC pistol accepts a 5.56 NATO cartridge. It has a 8.5 in (22 cm) barrel and weighs 5.9 lb (2.7 kg) pounds. The gun has the short-stroke gas piston system. The barrel has a 1:7 twist and is treated with Black Nitride. [2]
During the Vietnam War in the early 1970s (July, 1970 to January, 1972) the Lake City Ordnance Plant (contractor code: LC) and Frankfort Arsenal (contractor code: FA) produced unmarked Boxer-primed 7.62×39mm Blank and Ball cartridges for use by American and Allied personnel.
The Ares Defense Shrike 5.56 is an air-cooled, dual-feed light machine gun/rifle for semi or full-auto configurations that fires the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge. The Shrike 5.56 is sold as either as a complete weapon, or as an upper receiver "performance upgrade kit" to existing AR-15 and M16-type service rifles and carbines.
The Bushmaster Arm Pistol was a 5.56×45mm NATO firearm, categorizeable as either a long pistol (under the American legal definition of a pistol) or compact carbine rifle, produced by the Gwinn Firearms Company, and later Bushmaster Firearms Inc.