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The 5.6mm Gewehr Patrone 90 or 5,6mm Gw Pat 90 (5.6 mm Rifle Cartridge 90), is the standard round used by the Swiss military in its rifle, the SIG SG 550. The cartridge is also known as the Cart 5,6mm 90 F (French: Cartouche pour Fusil / Italian: Cartuccia per Fucile ) to the French- and Italian-speaking Swiss militiamen.
In January 2014, SIG introduced the 556xi series rifles as an improvement to the 556 and 556R series rifles. As of May 2017, SIG has discontinued the SIG 556, SIG 556R, and 556xi series of rifles and no longer displays those models on the products section of their website. [19] The SIG 522LR is a .22-caliber sporting rifle styled after the SG 551.
Export variant is chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO. QBU-97A: Semi-automatic bullpup sniper rifle China: 1997–present 5.56×45mm NATO variant of QBU-88. Galil Córdova: Assault rifle Colombia: 2015–present SIG SG 530 FAMAE: Assault rifle Chile: 1991–present Chilean version of SIG SG 540. HS Produkt VHS: Assault rifle Croatia: 2009–present ...
Because of the pressures associated with the 5.56×45mm, it is not advisable to fire 5.56×45mm rounds in an AR-15 marked as .223 Remington, since this can result in damage to the rifle or injury to the shooter. [1] The AR-15 can be chambered in many other calibers; it is then often referred to as an AR-15 style rifle.
A U.S. Army graphic detailing the competitors for the program as of December 2020. The Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program is a United States military program created in 2017 by the U.S. Army to replace the 5.56mm M4 carbine, the M249 SAW light machine gun, and the 7.62mm M240 machine gun, with a common system of 6.8mm cartridges and to develop small arms fire-control systems for the ...
The SG 540 is a 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle developed in the early 1970s by Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG, currently SAN Swiss Arms AG) of Neuhausen, Switzerland [4] as a private venture primarily destined for export markets and as a potential replacement for the 7.5×55mm Swiss SG 510 automatic rifle known as the Stgw 57 in Swiss service.
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Firearms that use the 5.56 mm caliber cartridges. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. 0–9. 5.56 mm assault rifles (1 C ...