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Bullpup assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: The Enhanced F88 (EF88) Austeyr is the ADF's standard individual weapon. The roll out of the EF88 to replace the F88 Austeyr began in 2016. [7] The EF88 is manufactured in Australia by Thales Australia. [8] The EF88 has a carbine variant. [8] The ADF ordered 30,000 rifles and later 8,500 rifles. [9]
Bren light machine gun, 17,500 produced from 1940 to 1945. L1A1 Self Loading Rifle, 222,773 rifles produced from 1959 to 1986; L2A1, 9,557 produced; L1A1-F1, 460 produced; F1 submachine gun, 25,000 produced from 1962 to 1973; Austeyr F88, produced from 1988; Minimi F89, produced from 1989; Australian Combat Assault Rifle (ACAR), produced from ...
M16A1 /M16S1 Used by the Australian Army until 1989 when the F88 Austeyr came into service. Australian forces involved in UN peacekeeping operations in Namibia, Western Sahara, and Cambodia used the M16A1 rifle well into the early 1990s. Light machine-gun. F1 Submachine Gun (9×19mm Parabellum) FN Minimi (5.56 calibre)
Transferred as 6th New South Wales Mounted Rifles to the Royal Australian Infantry Corps in 1956. It became E Company of 2nd Battalion the Royal New South Wales Regiment under the Pentropic reorganisation of 1960. [48] 7th/21st Australian Horse. Disbanded and personnel used to form 4th Battalion (Australian Rifles) in 1957.
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The Advanced Individual Combat Weapon (AICW) was an Australian prototype combination assault rifle and grenade launcher developed as a technology demonstrator. [1] The AICW combined a standard 5.56 mm assault rifle based on the successful F88 Austeyr [4] with a superposed load grenade launcher developed by Metal Storm.
Assault rifles are full-length, select fire rifles that are chambered for an intermediate-power rifle cartridge that use a detachable magazine. Assault rifles are currently the standard service rifles in most modern militaries. Some rifles listed below, such as the AR-15, also come in semi-auto models that would not belong under the term ...
Leader Dynamics was subsequently sold off to a businessman who formed his own company, Australian Automatic Arms, and started to make the Leader rifles in Tasmania. They differed in lacking the carrying handle of the Leader and coming with a 30-round magazine. The Semi-Auto Rifle (SAR) had a 16.25" [413 mm] barrel and synthetic stock.