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The rifle feeds from standard NATO magazines that adhere to STANAG-DRAFT 4179 (interchangeable with magazines from the M16 rifle) and have a 30-round capacity, but it can also use short 12-round box magazines, usually only used for parades (early rifles and carbines were also adapted to use special 20 and 30-round magazines that were of an ...
Rifles of Spain (1 C, 7 P) S. Semi-automatic pistols of Spain (24 P) Star firearms (1 C, 3 P) Submachine guns of Spain (8 P) Pages in category "Weapons of Spain"
Saw use in the Guardia Civil, the Spanish Gendarmerie, into the 1970s. CETME rifle: the main Spanish Cold War assault rifle entered service in the early 1960s. Designed by the German Ludwig Vorgrimler while he was working for the Spanish CETME arms company, it later became the basis for Germany's own main Cold War service rifle, the Heckler ...
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
Spain remained an important naval and military power, depending on critical sea lanes stretching from Spain through the Caribbean and South America, and westwards towards Manila and the Far East. The Army was reorganized on the French model and in 1704 the old Tercios were transformed into Regiments .
Assault rifles of Spain (1 P) Pages in category "Rifles of Spain" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
In 2006, Spain participated in Darfur, Sudan by sending observers, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Spain also participated in the Iraq War between 2003 and 2004, in Gabon and in Senegal to safeguard maritime traffic in the Horn of Africa (with 33 Civil Guards and national police officers, two patrol vessels and a helicopter). [7]