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Australia: Mk 47 Mod 1 Australian Defence Force $47 million contract for 200 designated Light Weight Automatic Grenade Launcher (LWAGL), to be delivered to the ADF from the third quarter of 2016 until mid 2017 to replace Mk-19. Fitted with the Lightweight Video Sight (LVS2) sighting system with integrated colour video and thermal imaging.
Australia: Bullpup assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: The Enhanced F88 (EF88) Austeyr is the ADF's standard individual weapon. The roll out of the EF88 to replace the F88 Austeyr began in 2016. [7] The EF88 is manufactured in Australia by Thales Australia. [8] The EF88 has a carbine variant. [8] The ADF ordered 30,000 rifles and later 8,500 rifles ...
The order made Australia the CH-47's first export customer. [13] The contract for the Chinooks included an offset agreement with Boeing through which the firm gave Australian companies opportunities to manufacture components of both the RAAF's helicopters and those destined for other customers.
PA md. 86 assault rifle with 40 × 47 mm AG-40 grenade launcher. 40×47 mm is a cartridge caliber produced in Romania for their AG-40 model 77 and model 80 (today AG-40P) rifle-mounted grenade launchers. [27] It features a casing with a high–low system. The propellant has low pressure and gives the projectile an average velocity of 78–120 m ...
BL 9.2-inch Mk IX – X naval gun rifled, used in successive marks from the 1880s for naval, railway, and coastal artillery; coastal served until 1956; BL 9.2 inch Mk XI naval gun gun introduced in 1908 increased bore length of Mk X to increase velocity further, but was unsuccessful in service and phased out by 1920
The grenade was designed for the Mk 47 Striker. [1] The Mk 47 is a candidate for replacing the Mk 19 grenade launcher , first fielded in 1968, and still in widespread service, around the world. The Mk 47 is considerably lighter than the Mk 19, is designed to fire all the same suites of grenades as the Mk 19, together with more modern grenades ...
The 47th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army.It was originally raised in 1916 for service during the First World War. The battalion then took part in the fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in France and Belgium, before being disbanded in early 1918 to provide reinforcements for other Australian units that were suffering from a manpower shortage following the ...
The Mk. 47 was a hybrid, doing some computing electrically, and the rest mechanically. It had gears and shafts, differentials, and totally enclosed disk-ball-roller integrators. However, it had no mechanical multipliers or resolvers ("component solvers"); these functions were performed electronically, with multiplication carried out using ...