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Greece: 7.62×51mm NATO: Service rifle. Made under license by Hellenic Defense Systems. Sizable number of rifles equipping frontline units got upgraded with SPUHR adjustable stock, aluminum handguard with foregrip and Picatinny rails accommodating Aimpoint CompM4 Red Dot optics. To be upgraded further.
Automatic rifles. HROPI automatic rifle [26] (Greek made) FN FAL (Belgian origin and Greek modification) Heckler & Koch G3 (German origin and Greek made) Rifles. Lee-Enfield rifle (British made) M1 Garand (American made) Springfield M1903 (American made) Scoped rifles. EVO M1995 Kifefs [25] (Greek made) Light machine guns. Bren machine gun ...
The Mannlicher–Schönauer rifle was the main small arm for the Greek military for some of the most active years of its modern history. Greece was almost continuously in state of war between the years 1904–1922 and 1940–1948. It appears that the Greeks issued four main contracts.
Similarly, the Greek state did not support Pyrkal, which was producing the FN FAL rifle under license. EBO was founded by the state in Aigio in 1976, after an agreement to initially produce under licence Heckler & Koch models adopted by the Greek Army, but with the intent to design arms of its own. [ 1 ]
This is a list of equipment of the Greek/ Hellenic Armed Forces during World War II. This list does not include weapons used by the Greek resistance during the occupation of Greece. Land weapons
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Toggle Rifles subsection. 1.1 Bolt-action rifles. 1.2 Semi-automatic rifles. 2 Knives and bayonets. ... List of Greek military equipment of World War II; References
The 6.5×54mm Mannlicher–Schönauer cartridge was adopted by the Greek Army, along with the Mannlicher–Schönauer rifle in 1903. From 1906 until the German invasion and capitulation of Greece in April 1941, it was the standard military cartridge of the Greek Army.