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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]
The Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a flechette-firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved. The concepts continued to be tested under the Future Rifle Program and again in the 1980s under the Advanced Combat Rifle program, but neither program resulted in a ...
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.
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.
Name Case type Bullet Length Rim Base Shoulder Neck OAL 5mm Pickert: 5.258 (.207)----- .22 Remington Jet [3]: Rimmed tapered bottlenecked: 5.651 (.223) 32.51 (1.28)
5.56×45mm NATO, .308 Winchester, .350 Legend, and .450 Bushmaster [1] Action: Bolt-action: Feed system: 3 or 4 (.450 Bushmaster) 5 or 10 round (5.56×45mm NATO and .308 Winchester) detachable box magazine: Sights: Adjustable ghost-ring rear Iron sights
.300 Winchester Magnum.338 Lapua Magnum United States 2008 Desert Tech WLVRN: Desert Tech.223 Remington 5.56×45mm NATO.223 Wylde.300 BLK.308 Win 7.62×51mm NATO 6.5mm Creedmoor United States 2024 Dragunov SVU: Central Design Research Bureau of Sporting and Hunting Arms 7.62×54mmR Russia 1994 DSR-Precision GmbH DSR-1: DSR-precision GmbH .308 ...
A .308 Winchester necked down to 7 mm (.284 caliber), the 7 mm-08 provides a flatter trajectory with lighter, more aerodynamic 7 mm bullets. [14] 7-30 Waters. Designed to improve the performance of lever-action rifle designs dating back to the 1890s, the 7-30 Waters is a .30-30 Winchester necked down to 7 mm (.284 caliber). Even with the lower ...