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150,000,000 [ 6 ][ 7 ] 5 million milled AK type 3, 10 million AKM,[ 8 ]5 million AK-74 [ 9 ]15-20 million Chinese Type 56 [ 10 ] 3 million Yugoslav Zastava M70, 2 million East German Mpi. Several million Egyptian Maadi. Mauser Gewehr 98. (and similar) Bolt-action rifle.
The .700 Nitro Express (17.8×89mmR) is a big-game rifle cartridge. The cartridge is typically charged with around 250 grains of powder, in addition to a two-grain igniter charge (to reduce the tendency of the cartridge to hang fire from such large powder charges). [3] The cartridge was introduced in 1988 by the boutique gunmakers Holland ...
Ballistic performance. Bullet mass/type. Velocity. Energy. 3,600 gr (233 g) 2,200 ft/s (670 m/s) 38,685 ft⋅lbf (52,450 J) The .950 JDJ (24.1×70mm) is an obsolete powerful large caliber rifle cartridge developed by American gunsmith and weapon designer J. D. Jones of SSK Industries.
The Barrett M82 (standardized by the U.S. military as the M107) is a recoil-operated, semi-automatic anti-materiel rifle developed by the Australian-owned company Barrett Firearms Manufacturing and produced in the United States. Also called the Light Fifty (due to its chambering of the .50 BMG 12.7×99mm NATO cartridge), [2][3] the weapon is ...
Major precision rifle variants used by snipers from around the world are as follows. The list includes hunting or precision rifles equipped with a telescopic optic, and precision rifles used by both military and law enforcement trained snipers and marksmen.
Naval gun: 1940 Empire of Japan: Kure Naval Arsenal: 457.2 BL 18 inch railway howitzer: Railway howitzer: 1920 United Kingdom: Elswick Ordnance Company: 457.2 BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun: Naval gun: 1916 United Kingdom: Elswick Ordnance Company: 457 18"/48 caliber Mark 1 gun: Naval gun: 1942 United States: 450 100-ton gun(RML 17.72 inch gun ...
Contents. Table of handgun and rifle cartridges. Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point. This is a table of selected pistol / submachine gun and rifle / machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for ...
The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova (Russian: Автомат Калашникова, lit. 'Kalashnikov's automatic [rifle]'; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is an assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian small-arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, it is ...