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The M1 carbine (formally the United States carbine, caliber .30, M1) is a lightweight semi-automatic carbine chambered in the .30 carbine (7.62×33mm) cartridge that was issued to the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. [11]
U.S. Army Ordnance issued a requirement for a "light rifle" with greater range, firepower, and accuracy than the M1911 pistol while weighing half as much as the M1 Garand. [11] As a result, the U.S. developed the semi-automatic M1 Carbine and shortly thereafter the select-fire M2 Carbine. Widely employed until the end of the Vietnam War, these ...
Selector switch cutout in M1A stock manufactured in 1997. M1A receivers are made from precision investment cast AISI 8620 alloy steel. The military M14 receivers were manufactured using the drop forge process, which is more complicated and more expensive. Until around the late 1990s, the M1A produced by Springfield Armory retained the cutout in ...
Auto-Ordnance produced different prototypes for military rifle trials in the 1920s [4] and for the .30 carbine trials in the early 1940s [5] but these were not adopted by the military. Later during World War II, Auto-Ordnance established its own production plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and produced the M1928A1, M1 and M1A1 Thompsons to ...
The third was Winchester's patent for the M1 carbine itself (“Automatic Firearm Construction” U.S. patent 2,308,257 published January 12, 1943) with Williams as the assignee. The fourth was the carbine's short-stroke gas piston (“Piston Means for Gas-Operated Firearms” U.S. patent 2,341,005 published February 8, 1944).
M1 bayonet; M1 carbine; M1 Garand; M18 recoilless rifle; M1903 Springfield; M1917 Browning machine gun; M1917 Enfield; M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle; M1919 Browning machine gun; M2 Browning; M2 mortar; M20 recoilless rifle; M3 submachine gun; M30 mortar; M7 grenade launcher; Madsen M-50 (Thai) Mauser C96; MG 08; MG 34; Mills bomb; Mk 2 grenade ...
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The "Mini Thirty Tactical Rifle" variant was introduced in 2010. [26] It closely mimics the Mini-14 Tactical Rifle variant, but in 7.62×39mm. It also has a shorter 16.12-inch barrel with flash suppressor, and is available with a standard fixed stock/fore end, or a collapsible ATI-brand stock with Picatinny rails.