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Cartridge, caliber 7.62mm, NATO, ball, silent, XM115: Little is known of this round, but it was an attempt to quiet the round. Never adopted. Cartridge, caliber 7.62mm, NATO, match, M118: 173-grain (11.2 g) 7.62×51mm NATO full metal jacket boat-tail round specifically designed for Match purposes. The round was introduced as the XM118 match in ...
While designing the CETME Modelo B and under recommendation of Heckler & Koch, the decision was made that the updated version of the original CETME Modelo A would chamber the more powerful 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. When the Modelo B was adopted by the Spanish military as the Modelo 58 in 1958, 7.62×51mm CETME was the standard rifle cartridge ...
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. This ammunition was developed following World War II as part of the NATO small arms standardization, it is made to replicate the ballistics of a pre-WWII full power rifle cartridge in a more compact package.
The copper for the casings was acquired by scrap dealers who supposedly were using it to make brass lipstick cases. [18] They made 9×19mm Parabellum and 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridges. IMI, TZZ, or ת צ (T Tz, or T'aasiya Tz'vaeet, "Military Industries") Israeli Military Industries – Tel Aviv, Israel. Manufactures small-arms cartridges, clips ...
The M14 rifle, officially the United States Rifle, Caliber 7.62 mm, M14, is an American battle rifle chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge.It became the standard-issue rifle for the U.S. military in 1957, replacing the M1 Garand rifle in service with the U.S. Army by 1958 and the U.S. Marine Corps by 1965; deliveries of service rifles to the U.S. Army began in 1959.
The Model 58 used a 20-round box magazine and was chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO round (although originally designed for the 7.92×41mm CETME cartridge [2] and later for the reduced power Spanish 7.62×51mm cartridge). [1] The CETME 58 would become the foundation of the widely deployed German Heckler & Koch G3 battle rifle. [1]
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7.62×51mm NATO (STANAG 2310) 12.7×99mm NATO (STANAG 4383) 40 mm grenade (×46 mm LV, ×51 mm MV, ×53 mm HV) Autocannons 20×102mm (STANAG 3585), 20 mm caliber; 25×137mm (STANAG 4173), 25 mm caliber; 27×145mmB (STANAG 3820), 27 mm caliber; 30×173mm (STANAG 4624), 30 mm caliber; 35x228mm (STANAG 4516), 35mm caliber; Tank guns 105×617mmR ...