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ArmaLite, or Armalite, is an American small arms engineering company, formed in the early 1950s, in Hollywood, California.Many of its products, as conceived by chief designer Eugene Stoner, relied on unique foam-filled fiberglass butt/stock furniture, and a composite barrel using a steel liner inside an aluminum sleeve, including the iconic AR-15/M16 family.
The ArmaLite AR-15 was designed to be a lightweight rifle and to fire a new high-velocity, lightweight, small-caliber cartridge to allow infantrymen to carry more ammunition. [11] In 1959, ArmaLite sold its rights to the AR-15 to Colt due to financial difficulties and limitations in terms of manpower and production capacity. [1]
ArmaLite, Elitool: AR-100 series [4] based on the AR-16 that used a self ejecting magazine device. [5] Used in development of Ultimax 100 LMG. AR-30, AR-30A1, AR-31.308 Winchester, .300 Winchester Magnum, .338 Lapua: ArmaLite: Bolt-action rifle based in part on the ArmaLite AR-50 rifle. AR-50.50 BMG: ArmaLite
At the time, ArmaLite Inc. was a very small organization (as late as 1956 it had only nine employees, including Stoner). [7] With Stoner as the chief design engineer, ArmaLite quickly released a number of unique rifle concepts. [9] The first prototypes of the 7.62 mm AR-10 emerged between 1955 and early 1956. [10]
The ArmaLite AR-18 is a gas-operated rifle chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition. The AR-18 was designed at ArmaLite in California by Arthur Miller, Eugene Stoner , George Sullivan, and Charles Dorchester in 1963 as an alternative to the Colt AR-15 design, a variant of which had just been selected by the U.S. military as the M16 .
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The ArmaLite AR100 is a 5.56×45mm NATO caliber short-stroke piston gas-operated, 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle fed from 30- round and 100-round drum magazines that eject from the magazine insert when empty and are discarded during a firefight.