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Battle rifles are full-length, semi-automatic or select fire rifles that are chambered for a full-power rifle cartridge, [1] and have been adopted by a nation's military. The difference between a battle rifle and a designated marksman rifle is often only one of terminology with modifications to the trigger and accuracy enhancements; many of the weapons below are currently still in use and have ...
The XCR was designed in 2004 by Alex J. Robinson of Robinson Armament Co. Production of the XCR-L variant of the rifle began in mid-2006. The XCR-L is currently available in 5.56×45mm NATO, 6.8mm Remington SPC and 7.62×39mm calibers. [9] Each of these calibers is available in kit form for converting an existing rifle to one of the other calibers.
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
A semi-automatic, take-down survival rifle. AR-10: 7.62×51mm NATO, .308 Winchester: Fairchild ArmaLite, Artillerie Inrichtingen (AI) A lightweight battle rifle. ArmaLite AR-14: Unknown: ArmaLite: A lightweight hunting style rifle that never made it past the prototype phase and according to reports had issues of exploding when fired. AR-15
Official rifle of the US military from 1892-4 until 1904. Ruger GP100: Revolver United States: 734,500 [151] Colt 1903/1908 Pocket Hammerless: Semi-automatic pistol 710,000 572,215 in .32 ACP and 138,009 in .380 ACP Winchester Model 1873: Lever-action rifle 702,000 [152] [153] SIG SG 510: Battle rifle Switzerland: 700,000 MAT-49: Submachine gun ...
The AK-308 has a cyclic rate of fire of 700 rounds per minute, features a 415 mm (16.3 in) long barrel, weighs 4.3 kg (9.48 lb) when empty, and uses a proprietary 20-round magazine. The full length of the rifle is 945 mm (37.2 in) and has an accuracy range of 800 m (875 yd).
The term "battle rifle" is a retronym created largely out of a need to differentiate automatic rifles chambered for fully powered cartridges from automatic rifles chambered for intermediate cartridges, which were later categorized as assault rifles. [2] Battle rifles were most prominent from the 1940s to the 1970s, when they were used as ...
Assault rifles are full-length, select fire rifles that are chambered for an intermediate-power rifle cartridge that use a detachable magazine. Assault rifles are currently the standard service rifles in most modern militaries. Some rifles listed below, such as the AR-15, also come in semi-auto models that would not belong under the term ...