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In 2011, the Minimi was also selected as the new light machine gun of the Norwegian Armed Forces, and an order was placed with FN for 1,900 weapons. [12] [13] Sight: Elcan SpecterDR 1-4×; Minimi MK3 Belgium: General purpose medium machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO: 1,000 received in 2022 (with 3,000 more on option). [13]
COLT AUT. PISTOL M/1912, with No. 67. As production start was slow, some Model 1911s were bought from Colt USA. Four hundred pistols were shipped to Norway for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1915, 300 more pistols were shipped in 1917 for the Norwegian Army.
The gun weighed 6,400 grams and was available in 7.62×51 (.308 Win), 6.5×55 Mauser/Skan and .22 LR for the recruit-class. In the .22LR version, the barrel was switched, the magazine follower and spring was removed and the bolt was changed to be able to fire rimfire ammunition.
Norwegian military aircraft (7 C, 2 P) W. Weapons of Norway (2 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Military equipment of Norway" The following 2 pages are in this category ...
After WW2, large numbers of German Mauser 98k were confiscated by Norwegian forces. Most of the rifles were re-barrelled to .30-06 and used as normal service rifles, but a number of Mauser 98 actions were used as the basis for building both military sniper and civilian target rifles at Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk.
The Norwegian Armed Forces (Norwegian: Forsvaret, lit. 'The Defence') are the armed forces responsible for the defence of Norway.It consists of five branches, the Norwegian Army, the Royal Norwegian Navy, which includes the Coast Guard, the Royal Norwegian Air Force, the Home Guard, and Norwegian Cyber Defence Force as well as several joint departments.
The kammerladers were phased out as more modern weapons became available — the Remington M1867, the Krag–Petersson (adopted by the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1876), and the Jarmann M1884. It is likely that the last of the modified naval kammerladers was not finally removed from military warehouses until after the Krag–Jørgensen was approved ...
The NM135 is equipped with a Detroit Diesel 6V53 non-turbocharged two-cycle diesel engine rated at 212 hp (158 kW) from the M113A1, driving through an Allison TX-100-1 automatic transmission with three forward and one reverse gears. In 1997 the suspension, cooling system, and final drives were updated to M113A2 standards.