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.223 Remington, 5.56 NATO: ArmaLite, Colt's Manufacturing Company: A lightweight assault rifle. A smaller version of the AR-10 and adopted by the United States military as the M16 rifle. Later developed by Colt into a popular semi-automatic Colt AR-15. AR-16: 7.62×51mm NATO: ArmaLite: Prototype battle rifle. ArmaLite AR-17: 12 gauge
The .223 Remington (designated 223 Remington by SAAMI [4] and 223 Rem. by the C.I.P. [5], pronounced "two-twenty three") is a rimless, bottlenecked, centerfire intermediate cartridge. It was developed in 1957 by Remington Arms and Fairchild Industries for the U.S. Continental Army Command of the United States Army as part of a project to create ...
The AR-15 rifle usually comes chambered for either the military cartridge 5.56×45mm or the .223 Remington. Because of the pressures associated with the 5.56×45mm, it is not advisable to fire 5.56×45mm rounds in an AR-15 marked as .223 Remington, since this can result in damage to the rifle or injury to the shooter. [1]
.223 REM 20 in. A1 1:12 Yes A1 Birdcage 605: Model 605: A1 Triangular S-1-F A1 No No .223 REM 15 in. A1 1:12 No Type 2 Duckbill 605A: Model 605A: A1 Triangular S-1-F A1 Yes No .223 REM 15 in. A1 1:12 No Type 2 Duckbill 605B Model 605B: A1 Triangular S-F-1-3 A1 No No .223 REM 15 in. A1 1:12 No Type 2 Duckbill 606 CAR-15 Heavy Assault Rifle M1 ...
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.
.223 Remington South Korea: 1982–present Dasan Machineries K16: Dasan Machineries: 5.56×45mm NATO South Korea: c.2024 [citation needed] Desert Tech MDR: Desert Tech.223 Remington 5.56×45mm NATO.223 Wylde.308 Winchester 7.62×51mm NATO United States 2014 Desert Tech WLVRN: Desert Tech.223 Remington 5.56×45mm NATO.223 Wylde.300 BLK.308 ...
A STANAG magazine [1] [2] or NATO magazine is a type of detachable firearm magazine proposed by NATO in October 1980. [3] Shortly after NATO's acceptance of the 5.56×45mm NATO rifle cartridge, Draft Standardization Agreement ( STANAG ) 4179 was proposed in order to allow NATO members to easily share rifle ammunition and magazines down to the ...
The Colt AR-15 is a product line of magazine-fed, gas-operated, autoloading rifle manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company ("Colt") in many configurations. [1] The rifle is a derivative of its predecessor, the lightweight ArmaLite AR-15, an automatic rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and other engineers at ArmaLite in 1956.