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  2. FN P90 - Wikipedia

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    1,800 m (5,900 ft) [7] Feed system. 50-round detachable box magazine [8] Sights. Tritium -illuminated reflex sight, back-up iron sights [7] The FN P90 is a personal defense weapon chambered for the 5.7×28mm cartridge, also classified as a submachine gun, designed and manufactured by FN Herstal in Belgium. [9][10][11] Created in response to ...

  3. AR-57 - Wikipedia

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    The AR-57 PDW upper is a new design on AR-15/M16 rifles, blending the AR-15/M16 lower with a lightweight, monolithic upper receiver system chambered in 5.7×28mm. This model is also sold as a complete rifle, supplied with two 50-round P90 magazines. [1] The magazines mount horizontally on top of the front handguard, with brass ejecting through ...

  4. FN Five-seven - Wikipedia

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    Sights. "Three-dot" type: fixed or adjustable; 177.8 mm (7 in) sight radius [11] The FN Five-seven (stylized as Five-seveN) is a semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured by FN Herstal in Belgium. [8] The pistol is named for the 5.7×28mm cartridge's bullet diameter, and the trademark's capitalization style is intended to emphasize the ...

  5. FN 5.7×28mm - Wikipedia

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    The 5.7×28mm cartridge was designed by FN Herstal specifically for use in the FN P90 personal defense weapon and FN Five-seven pistol. [11] Subsequently, it has been used in a number of other weapons, such as the FN PS90 carbine and the AR-57, an upper receiver for M16 and AR-15 rifles.

  6. Magazine (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Magazine (firearms) A staggered-column 9×19mm Browning Hi-Power pistol box magazine. The top image shows the magazine loaded and ready for use, while the lower image shows it unloaded and disassembled. Loading of small arms ammunition into a magazine. A magazine, often simply called a mag, is an ammunition storage and feeding device for a ...

  7. List of weapons developed by FN Herstal - Wikipedia

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    Mitrailleuse d´Avion Browning - F.N. Calibre 13,2 mm airplane machine gun FN Five-seven pistol with 5.7×28mm cartridges P90 personal defense weapon United States sailor fires an M240B, a U.S. version of the FN MAG, adopted for infantry use in the 1990s Early M249 manufacture of FN Minimi U.S. Marine aiming FN 303 fitted with holographic weapon sight FN 5.7×28mm cartridges as used in P90 ...

  8. Personal defense weapon - Wikipedia

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    The FN P90, one of the most well-known personal defense weapons (PDW) Personal defense weapons (PDWs) are a class of compact, magazine -fed automatic firearms that are typically submachine guns designed to fire rifle-like cartridges. Most PDWs fire a small-caliber (generally less than 8 mm or 0.31 in in bullet diameter), high-velocity ...

  9. STANAG magazine - Wikipedia

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    A STANAG magazine[1][2] or NATO magazine is a type of detachable firearm magazine proposed by NATO in October 1980. [3] Shortly after NATO's acceptance of the 5.56×45mm NATO rifle cartridge, Draft Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 4179 was proposed in order to allow NATO members to easily share rifle ammunition and magazines down to the ...