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The Sturmgewehr 58 (StG 58) is a selective fire battle rifle. The first 20,000 were manufactured by FN Herstal Belgium, but later the StG 58 was manufactured under licence by Steyr-Daimler-Puch (now Steyr Mannlicher ), and was formerly the standard rifle of the Österreichisches Bundesheer (Austrian Federal Army).
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By August 1945, the Red Army had created 50 StG 44s from existing assembly parts, and had begun inspecting their design. 10,785 sheets of technical designs were confiscated by the Soviets as part of their research. Schmeisser was one of 16 Germans for which a special department (no. 58) was created at factory number 74, later known as Izhmash.
The CETME Model 58 is a stamped-steel, select-fire battle rifle produced by the Spanish armaments manufacturer Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales Especiales (CETME). [1] 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 ...
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The armed forces were re-equipped by 1994 and during this period the L1A1 rifles were gradually phased out. Most were either destroyed or sold, with some going to Sierra Leone. Several thousand were sent to the US and sold as parts kits, and others were refurbished by LuxDefTec in Luxembourg and are still on sale to the European market. [43]
Vz. 58: Assault rifle Czechoslovakia: 1,000,000 [144] Taurus Millennium series Semi-automatic pistol Brazil: 1,000,000 [145] Nearly 1 million before 2015/16 recall, still in production: Daewoo Precision Industries K2: Assault rifle South Korea: 1,000,000 [146] "Nearly a million" in 2017, still in production and being exported FN Browning M1900
Parts kits for only 30 complete rifles were produced before the war ended. The StG 45(M) had an elevated iron sights line over the bore axis in part to optimize the maximum point-blank range of the compared to full-power rifle cartridges modest external ballistic performance of the 7.92×33mm Kurz cartridge, ergonomics and recoil management.