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M39 Enhanced Marksman Rifle in use with a U.S. Marine. The EMR is primarily used by a designated marksman , to provide precision fire for units that do not rate a scout sniper . As a replacement for the DMR, the EMR fills the need for a lightweight, accurate weapon system utilizing a cartridge more powerful than the M16A4's standard 5.56×45mm ...
The 7.62×53mmR cartridge remains in military use to this day, although it is now only used by the 7.62 TKIV 85 sniper rifle. [citation needed] PKM machine guns and other Russian weapons in use by the Finnish Defence Forces use the 7.62×54mmR exclusively. The Finnish Defence Forces issued instructions that when ever possible, personnel issued ...
M/28–76: A dual purpose sniper rifle and target rifle for CISM 300 m standard rifle competition. They were modified from existing M/28–30 and M/28–57 rifles, using the M/28–30 barrel and sights (often with new barrels, but sometimes original from M/28–30) and new birch wood stocks of the same profile as the M/27–66.
As of December 2013 the 7.62×54mmR is mainly used in designated marksman and sniper rifles like the Dragunov sniper rifle, SV-98 and machine guns like the PKM. It is also one of the few (along with the .22 Hornet, .30-30 Winchester, and .303 British) bottlenecked, rimmed centerfire rifle cartridges still in common use today. Most of the ...
The United States Marine Corps Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR, NSN 1005-01-458-6235; more formally the United States Rifle, Caliber 7.62 mm, M14, DMR) is a semi-automatic, gas-operated rifle chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. It is a modified version of the M14 rifle formerly used by the United States Marine Corps.
M39 Pantserwagen, an AFV of the Royal Dutch Army used in World War II; M39 armored utility vehicle, a variant of the American M18 Hellcat tank destroyer; M39 cannon, an American aircraft-mounted automatic cannon; M39 rifle, a Finnish variant of the Mosin–Nagant rifle; M39 Enhanced Marksman Rifle, a semi-automatic, gas-operated rifle
The gun could be set up for either right- or left-hand feed by switching the feeder head around. [4] Some 35,000 were produced before being superseded by the M61 cannon which outperformed the M39 in almost every way. [5] The only US aircraft still flying with the M39 is the Northrop F-5, an aircraft now only used for training.
Production of the Mosin–Nagant M1891/30 bolt-action rifle continued, and it remained the standard-issue rifle to Red Army troops, with the SVT-40 more often issued to non-commissioned officers [citation needed] and elite units like the naval infantry. Since these factories already had experience manufacturing the SVT-38, output increased ...