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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.
In military service, the Swiss Army issued the Stgw. 57 as the personal weapon of every soldier. In the course of service, the Stgw. 57 replaced the following four weapons: (i) the K31 rifle, (ii) the Suomi M-31/Mp. 43/Mp. 44 submachine gun, (iii) the Lmg 25 light machinegun, and (iv) in the 1974–1977 period, replaced the Zf. Kar. 55 sniper's ...
SIG Sauer is a Swiss brand name of firearms originally manufactured in Neuhausen am Rheinfall. ... It was adopted by the Swiss military in 1949 as the "Pistole 49 ...
The SIG P210 (Swiss Army designation Pistole 49, the civilian model was known as SP47/8 prior to 1957) is a locked breech self loading, semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured in Neuhausen am Rheinfall (Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland) by SIG from 1948 to 2006.
The SIG "Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft" was founded as "Schweizerische Waggon-Fabrik bei Schaffhausen". Production of arms started in 1860 at the request of the Swiss Army. Between 1970 and 1975, SIG purchased Swiss-based Hämmerli AG as well as the German-based Hämmerli in Tiengen and SAUER & SOHN GmbH in Eckernförde.
Not to be confused with SIG P210 series, which licensed the Petter-Browning system from SACM of France in 1938 [citation needed], the SIG Sauer P220 was developed for release in 1975 for the Swiss Army as a replacement for the SIG P210, [3] which had been developed during World War II; in service it is known as "Pistole 75" (P75).
In 1975, the Swiss military replaced the P210 with the P220, dubbed the "Pistole 75", which was the first product of a partnership with J.P. Sauer & Sohn. In a 1984 bidding contest to provide more than 300,000 sidearms to the US military, the SIG Sauer P226 was defeated by Beretta 's 92FS which was awarded the contract for the M9 pistol.
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.