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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
However, unlike most Russian rifles, it adopts a bullpup layout, which reduces the overall length while maintaining a full-length barrel, improving handling in confined spaces. The rifle can be chambered in multiple calibers, including the standard Russian 5.45×39mm and 7.62×39mm rounds, as well as the NATO- standard 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge.
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 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 MDR (Micro Dynamic Rifle) is a family of autoloading bullpup rifles designed by Desert Tech (formerly Desert Tactical Arms) in 2014. A second generation version of the rifle is marketed as the MDRX (an acronym for Micro Dynamic Rifle eXtreme ).
This will likely strengthen the ammunition power of the rifle make it easier to use, while also reducing the weight of the 6.1 kg (13 lb) weapon by 10 percent. [13] In 2017, Daewoo revealed the 2nd gen K11 which improved the weight (5.5 kg) and the 20mm airburst grenade firepower.
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 ...
Developed by Alliant Techsystems, with Heckler & Koch as a major subcontractor, the most commonly seen version of the XM29 consisted of a semi-automatic 20×28mm smart grenade launcher, an underslung "KE" assault carbine (derived from the HK G36 then in its late developmental stage) firing a standard 5.56×45mm NATO round, and a top-mounted computer-assisted sighting system with integrated ...