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K-3 (rifle) Garni-ler 5.45×39mm Armenian SSR (now Armenia) 1990s KAL1 general purpose infantry rifle: Small Arms Factory Lithgow: 7.62×51mm NATO Australia 1970 KEPPELER KS Bullpup Sniper: KEPPELER Germany: 7.62×51mm.308 Win.300 Win Mag.338 Lapua Germany 2002 M17S556: K&M ARMS.223 REM 5.56×45mm NATO United States 2014 – current Kel-Tec KSG
The Malyuk is cooled by air convection, which allows the rifle to have a longer barrel life. [5] The rifle's effective firing range is 500 m [18] at a rate of 700 rounds per minute. The magazine release button is located next to the trigger.
The S&T Daewoo K11 DAW (Dual-barrel Air-burst Weapon) [8] is a multi-weapon [clarification needed] resembling the earlier US Objective Individual Combat Weapon in concept, design, and operation.
The bullpup concept was first tested militarily in 1901 with the British Thorneycroft carbine, but it was not until the Cold War that more successful designs and improvements led to wider adoption. In 1977, the Austrian Army became the first military force in the world to adopt a bullpup rifle, the Steyr AUG, as a principal combat weapon.
The British Army had considered bullpup designs with intermediate calibre rounds in the 1950s, and officially adopted one of these as .280 British in 1951 in the EM-2 and Taden gun. However, US intransigence during NATO standardization efforts, and Winston Churchill's interest in standards above all, led to the adoption of the 7.62×51mm NATO ...
The DSR-50 Sniper Rifle is chambered for the .50 BMG (12.7×99mm NATO) cartridge that is significantly larger than the .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge, which is the biggest available chambering for the DSR-1 rifle. Sniper rifles chambered in .50 BMG are often employed as anti-materiel rifles.
Stechkin's gun was slightly more accurate than Nikonov's, but turned out less reliable, mainly because it accumulated more fouling. Nikonov's design won and became the AN-94 . [ 3 ] In TKB-0146, switching from one-round semi-automatic to fully automatic fire was accomplished by a secondary trigger located behind the main trigger.
Despite the bullpup design, it was designed for ambidextrous use with ambidextrous fire selectors and safety levers and ejection converted from right to left by rotating the bolt head 180°. The chamber was configured to accept the proprietary belted cartridges as well as commercial 12 gauge rounds and the barrel could be fitted with a choke or ...