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  2. British military rifles - Wikipedia

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    Brown Bess musket – precursor to the early British rifles. The origins of the modern British military rifle are within its predecessor the Brown Bess musket.While a musket was largely inaccurate over 100 yards (91 m), due to a lack of rifling and a generous tolerance to allow for muzzle-loading, it was cheap to produce and could be loaded quickly.

  3. List of military equipment of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all military equipment ever used by the United Kingdom which includes weapons, ships and aircraft. This includes lists of specific types of current and former military equipment of the UK, and military equipment lists for certain periods such as World War II.

  4. List of equipment of the British Army - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and equipment being trialled.

  5. List of military weapons of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Crusader tank mk III main British built tank in British service in the middle of World War II. However it was not the most numerous in service. The main British tank in 1942 was the M3 Lee and the M3 Grant a British variant of it and in 1943 it was early M4 Sherman variants.

  6. List of Cold War weapons and land equipment of the United ...

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    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.

  7. Webley & Scott - Wikipedia

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    In 1929 Webley introduced its Mark II air rifle. During World War II Webley air rifles were used for rifle training as well as civilian target shooting and hunting. [11] [12] The Mark II, known as the service air rifle because of its use by the UK military, used break-action with a superimposed barrel locked by bolt action.

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  9. List of World War II weapons of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Lanchester submachine gun – British submachine gun, developed from the German MP28, used by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. Sten – simple design, low-cost British submachine gun in service from late 1941 to the end of the war. Around four million produced.