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In the film, the weapon is called a "XM-18E1R projectile-launcher", deemed capable of firing munitions far beyond the actual Manville gun. Dialogue and literature in the film suggests that it fires fragmentation, grenade, tactical, anti-tank, anti-personnel and "flashette" shells. Rate of fire was touted as "18 rounds in five seconds".
Stripper clip loading for a 7.92×57mm Mauser Karabiner 98k rifle. A device practically identical to a modern stripper clip was patented by inventor and treasurer of United States Cartridge Company De Witt C. Farrington in 1878, while a rarer type of the clip now known as Swiss-type (after the Schmidt–Rubin) frame charger was patented in 1886 by Louis P. Diss of Remington Arms. [3]
The Army Times reported on January 19, 2017, that the contract for the new US handgun had been awarded to SIG Sauer Inc. on January 18, 2017. [30] Several news sources at the 2017 Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show , as well as SIG Sauer, [ 31 ] stated that the SIG Sauer P320 had been selected as the winner of the $580 million ...
On March 4, 1963, the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency made the first purchase of the Stoner 63, ordering 25 units in various configurations. [9] In August and September 1963, the Stoner 63 was sent to the Marines Corps Landing Force Development Center at Quantico for evaluation, where it made a positive impression with its light weight and high ammunition capacity; [5 ...
The Heckler & Koch XM8 is a lightweight assault rifle system developed from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The rifle was designed by German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch (H&K), and shares design and engineering with their G36 rifle.
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 ...
As in early Colt and Browning pocket pistols, the Ortgies striker also operated as an ejector as the slide traveled backwards after discharge. [1] Unusual design features included the safety and the magazine. The safety was a lever inset into the back of the grip and, with the gun cocked, forced backward out of the grip into the "safe" position ...
A moon clip is a ring-shaped or star-shaped piece of metal designed to hold multiple cartridges together as a unit, for simultaneous insertion and extraction from a revolver cylinder. Moon clips may either hold an entire cylinder's worth of cartridges together ( full moon clip ), half a cylinder ( half moon clip ), or just two neighboring ...