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This is a list of all of the weapon products made by Heckler & Koch, a German weapons defence manufacturer with subsidiaries all over the world. It includes fully developed, experimental and military products, as well as those produced under license.
This is a list of firearm brands ... Rifle 556 Tactica Accurate Armory LLC United States Civilian ... German Sport Guns GmbH:
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
The Gewehr 88 was the first rifle adopted by Germany that used Smokeless powder. Gewehr 98: Mauser-Werke various others 7.92×57mm Mauser: Wehrmacht Waffen-SS Volkssturm: Standard German infantry rifle of World War I. Saw limited use in World War II, including issue to Adolf Hitler's SS bodyguard unit. - Gewehr 98 Sniper Rifle: Mauser-Werke ...
Introduced to the Bundeswehr as a long-range rifle as part of the Infantryman of the Future project and is considered an alternative when the G36 and G22 reach their performance limits. In the G82A1 version, the weight was reduced by 2.5 kg through the use of titanium and aluminum and three additional Picatinny rails were added to the housing.
This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifles and any other variants.
MP43, MP44, and StG44 were different names for what was essentially the same rifle, with minor differences in production and dates. The various names were a result of the complicated small arms nomenclature in Nazi Germany. Developed from the Mkb 42(H) "machine carbine", the 'StG44' combined traits of carbines, submachine guns and automatic rifles.