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Pattern 1776 rifle. In January 1776, 1,000 rifles were ordered to be built for the British Army.A pattern by gunsmith William Grice, based on German rifles in use by the British Army, was approved for official issue as the Pattern 1776 Infantry Rifle.
The SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) is a British family of 5.56×45mm NATO service weapons used by the British Army. [4] The L85 Rifle variant has been the standard issue service rifle of the British Armed Forces since 1987, replacing the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle. The prototypes were created in 1976, with production of the A1 variant starting in ...
Lee–Enfield [1] – Main service rifle until the 1950s and afterwards adapted for a variety of specialist roles. EM-2 rifle [2] – Experimental rifle adopted very briefly in 1951. L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle [3] – Main Cold War service rifle from 1954 to 1994. SA80 L85 rifle [4] – Adopted right at the end of the Cold War in 1987.
Ajax is the first British vehicle to be fitted with the Case Telescoped 40mm Cannon. [164] To be increased to 589 vehicles by 2029. [165] Boxer Germany: Armoured personnel carrier: 2 [166] (623 by 2032) Boxer is the new British Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV), an eight-by-eight-wheeled, all-terrain, armoured transport vehicle.
The Rifles is an infantry regiment of the British Army.Formed in 2007, it consists of four Regular battalions and three Reserve battalions. Each Regular battalion was formerly an individual battalion of one of the two large regiments of the Light Division (with the exception of the 1st Battalion, which is an amalgamation of two individual regiments).
Boys anti-tank rifle which was the main infantry anti-tank weapon of the British Army in the early war PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti-tank) along with ammunition. Blacker Bombard – spigot mortar firing round. Issued for home defence only; Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55in, Boys "Boys anti-tank rifle" – infantry anti-tank weapon (prewar–1943).
The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were soon renamed the "Rifle Corps".
As a standard-issue infantry rifle, it is still found in service in the armed forces of some Commonwealth nations, [12] notably with the Bangladesh Police, which makes it the second longest-serving military bolt-action rifle still in official service, after the Mosin–Nagant (Mosin-Nagant receivers are used in the Finnish 7.62 Tkiv 85). [13]