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2. XM214 Microgun - Wikipedia

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   The complete Six-Pak system weighed 85 pounds (38.5 kg) with 1,000 rounds of ammunition, comparable in weight to some heavy machine guns. The basic gun in the Six-Pak weighed 27 pounds, or 12.2 kg. The system could be carried by a team of two soldiers and mounted either to an M122 tripod or a vehicle's pintle mount. The overall length is 104 cm ...

3. List of military headstamps - Wikipedia

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   The French-style headstamp has the yearly quarter before the 4-digit year (e.g., 4-1917 would mean 4th Quarter (October, November and December), 1917). It employed 1,000 workers in three around-the-clock shifts. They either lived in Swanton or commuted by streetcar from nearby St.Albans. Remington closed the plant at the end of the war when the ...

4. 5.56×45mm NATO - Wikipedia

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   In addition to these H83 configurations, blank rounds can come in wire-bound wooden boxes containing 1,000 rounds in twenty-round cartons. [104] Linked ammunition is supplied in H83 boxes that contain belts of the desired quantity and link configuration (e.g. a 800-round box consisting of belts arranged in a sequence of four ball rounds ...

5. Point-blank range - Wikipedia

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   Torso Lethal Shot Placement rectangle of 450 × 225 mm (17.7 × 8.85 in) superimposed over a silhouetted soldier. Small arms are often sighted in so that their sight line and bullet path are within a certain acceptable margin out to the longest possible range, called the maximum point-blank range.

6. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   Snake shot (AKA: bird shot, rat shot and dust shot) [57] refers to handgun and rifle rounds loaded with small lead shot. Snake shot is generally used for shooting at snakes, rodents, birds, and other pests at very close range. The most common snake shot cartridge is .22 Long Rifle loaded with No. 12 shot. From a standard rifle these can produce ...

7. Blank-firing adapter - Wikipedia

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   U.S. Army soldiers in UCP ACUs training with their M4 carbines fitted with bright yellow blank-firing adapters.. A blank-firing adapter or blank-firing attachment (BFA), [1] sometimes called a blank adapter or blank attachment, is a device used in conjunction with blank ammunition for safety reasons, functional reasons or a combination of them both.

8. Ultimax 100 - Wikipedia

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   The Ultimax 100 is a Singapore-made 5.56mm light machine gun, developed by the Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS, now ST Kinetics) by a team of engineers under the guidance of American firearms designer L. James Sullivan. [1]

9. SAR 21 - Wikipedia

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   The SAR 21 ("Singapore Assault Rifle - 21st Century") is a bullpup assault rifle designed and manufactured in Singapore, chambered for the 5.56x45mm cartridge. First revealed and subsequently adopted by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) as its standard service weapon in 1999, it was designed and developed over a four-year period to replace the locally license-built M16S1 [3] by the Ministry of ...