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The ZiS-3 underwent an official five-day acceptance trial in February 1942, and was then accepted into service as divisional field gun model 1942 (full official name). Grabin worked to increase production at Artillery Factory No. 92. Conveyor assembly lines admitted the use of low-skilled labour without significant quality loss.
However, the newly formed West German Army now showed interest and soon purchased a number of CETME rifles (7.62×51mm NATO chambering) for further testing. The CETME, known as the Automatisches Gewehr G3 according to German nomenclature, competed successfully against the Swiss SIG SG 510 (G2) and the American AR-10 (G4) to replace the ...
Name Image Origin Type Calibre Notes SR-98 United Kingdom Bolt action sniper rifle: 7.62×51mm: An Australian variant of the Accuracy International Arctic Warfare, it is the standard-issue sniper rifle in the Australian Army and is chambered for 7.62×51mm.
A competitor reloads a shotgun during the 2018 USPSA Multigun Championship in Boulder City, Nevada.. Multigun, Multi Gun or Multi-Gun, often also called 2-Gun or 3-Gun depending on the types of firearms used, are practical shooting events where each of the stages require the competitor to use a combination of handguns, rifles, and/or shotguns [1] Multigun has a lot in common with ordinary IPSC ...
The 3rd Machine Gun Battalion was an infantry support unit of the Australian Army.Originally formed in March 1918 for service during World War I as part of the all volunteer Australian Imperial Force, it was one of five such units raised as part of the AIF during the war.
AWADI was formed in October 1988 by the merger of the defence electronics business of AWA, Thorn EMI Electronics Australia and Fairey Australasia. [ 3 ] BAE Systems was formed on 30 November 1999, following the merger of British Aerospace with the General Electric Company 's defence arm, Marconi Electronic Systems .
Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia), and sometimes including New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia). The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically , physiogeographically , philologically , and ecologically , where the term ...
Number of grooves: 24 Width of groove: 0.2927 in (7.43 mm) Depth of groove: 0.03 in (0.76 mm) Width of land: 0.10 in (2.54 mm) Type of breechblock: Slotted screw Type of breech mechanism: Lever pull Number of handles to operate: 1 Power: Hand Type of firing mechanism: Continuous pull Muzzle velocity, maximum: 2,800 ft (853 m) per second Range ...