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A worker at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant packs two cans of newly manufactured 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition into a wirebound crate. (c. 1998) Headstamp of a .50 caliber cartridge casing made at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in 1943 and recovered from the Sahuarita Bombing and Gunnery Range in 2012.
The table below gives a list of firearms that can fire the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, first developed and used in the late 1970s for the M16 rifle, which to date, is the most widely produced weapon in this caliber. [1]
H Winchester Repeating Arms Company – New Haven, Connecticut: P, PCCo or PETERS Peters Cartridge Company – Kings Mills, Ohio: R-P Remington-Peters – Lonoke, Arkansas (1970–present). Lonoke facility only produced centerfire ammo from 1970; took over rimfire production from Bridgeport in 1989. [3]
It appears that this round can drastically improve the performance of any AR-15 weapon chambered to .223/5.56 mm. Superior accuracy, wounding capacity, stopping power and range have made this the preferred round of many special forces operators, and highly desirable as a replacement for the older, Belgian-designed 5.56×45mm SS109/M855 NATO round.
Their "Target" brand (manufactured in the late 1980s and early 1990s) was contracted out to Fábrica Nacional de Munições (FNM) and came in .223 Remington, .303 British, .308 Winchester, 6.5mm Swedish, and 8x57mm JS.
The .223 WSSM was introduced in 2003 by the Browning Arms Company, Winchester Ammunition, and Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The .223 designation is a reference to the popular .223 Remington. It is currently the fastest production .22 caliber round in the world with muzzle velocities as high as 4,600 feet per second (1,402 meters per second
The M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon), [4] [5] [6] formally the Light Machine Gun, 5.56 mm, M249, is the United States Armed Forces adaptation of the Belgian FN Minimi, a light machine gun manufactured by FN Herstal (FN).
.300 Winchester Magnum: Bolt-action United States: 2018 Mk 14 Enhanced Battle Rifle: Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division, Smith Enterprise Inc., Mike Rock & Jim Ribordy 7.62×51mm NATO: Short-stroke piston (select-fire) United States: 2002 Desert Tech SRS: Desert Tech.243 Winchester 7.62×51mm NATO.300 Winchester Magnum.338 Lapua Magnum ...