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Wireless Set No. 76 – Transmitter set used in conjunction with receiver R109. Wireless Set No. 88 – VHF manpack set from 1947. Wireless Set No. 108; Larkspur radio system. Station Radio A13 – HF manpack transceiver. Station Radio A40 – Based on the Canadian C/PRC-26. Station Radio A41 – British copy of the US AN/PRC-10. Replaced the ...
FAL rifles are still commercially available from a few domestic firms in semi-auto configuration: Enterprise Arms, DSArms, and Century International Arms. Century Arms created a semi-automatic version L1A1 with an IMBEL upper receiver and surplus British Enfield inch-pattern parts, while DSArms used Steyr-style metric-pattern FAL designs. This ...
A disassembled Mauser action showing a partially disassembled receiver and bolt. In firearms terminology and law, the firearm frame or receiver is the part of a firearm which integrates other components by providing housing for internal action components such as the hammer, bolt or breechblock, firing pin and extractor, and has threaded interfaces for externally attaching ("receiving ...
The L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle (SLR), also known by the initial Canadian designation C1, or in the U.S. as the "inch pattern" FAL, is a British version of the Belgian FN FAL battle rifle. The L1A1 was produced under licence and adopted by the armed forces of the Commonwealth of Nations , mainly by United Kingdom , Australia , Canada , India ...
In 1950, both the Belgian FAL prototype and the British EM-2 bullpup assault rifles were tested by the US Army against other rifle designs. The EM-2 performed well and the FAL prototype greatly impressed the Americans, but the idea of the intermediate cartridge was at that moment incomprehensible to them, and the United States insisted on a ...
Name Manufacturer Image Cartridge Country Type Year Arsenal P-M02: Arsenal Firearms: 9×19mm Parabellum Bulgaria Semi-automatic pistol: 1999 BFD 1911: Better Firearms Designs
Coonan Arms Inc. was a gun manufacturer owned by Dan Coonan [1] that manufactured custom 1911 handguns [2] and FAL receivers [3] and was based in Blaine, Minnesota. [ 4 ] Coonan Inc. went out of business in 2019.
The .280 British was tested in a variety of rifles and machine guns including the EM-2, Lee–Enfield, FN FAL, Bren, M1 Garand and Taden gun. Despite its success as an intermediate cartridge, the .280 British was not considered powerful enough by the US Army and several variants of the .280 British were created in an attempt to appease the US Army.