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2. Gas-operated reloading - Wikipedia

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   This high-pressure gas has sufficient force to destroy a firearm unless it is regulated somehow. Most gas-operated firearms rely on tuning the gas port size, mass of operating parts, and spring pressures to function. Several other methods are employed to regulate the energy. The M1 carbine incorporates a very short piston, or "tappet." This ...

3. List of assault rifles - Wikipedia

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   Pistolengewehr [16] [17] [18] Waffenfabrik Bern, Adolf Fürrer 7.65x35mm Switzerland: no 1920–1921 Pușcă Automată model 1986: ROMARM: 5.45×39mm Romania: 1986–present PVAR rifle: United Defense Manufacturing Corporation: 5.56×45mm NATO Philippines: 2011 QBS-06: 5.8×42 DBS-06 China: 2010 QBZ-03: Norinco: 5.8×42mm 5.56×45mm NATO China ...

4. ArmaLite AR-18 - Wikipedia

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   The ArmaLite AR-18 is a gas-operated rifle chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition.The AR-18 was designed at ArmaLite in California by Arthur Miller, Eugene Stoner, George Sullivan, and Charles Dorchester in 1963 as an alternative to the Colt AR-15 design, a variant of which had just been selected by the U.S. military as the M16.

5. Akdal MKA 1919 - Wikipedia

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   The Akdal MKA 1919 is a gas operated, semi-automatic shotgun that resembles the M16 rifle and mimics the layout and placement of some of the controls. It was created by Turkish company Akdal Arms . The MKA 1919 uses a conventional gas-operated action which is located around the support tube that runs below the barrel.

6. Blowback (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   In firearms, a blowback system is generally defined as an operating system in which energy to operate the firearm's various mechanisms, and automate the loading of another cartridge, is derived from the inertia of the spent cartridge case being pushed out the rear of the chamber by rapidly expanding gases produced by a burning propellant, typically gunpowder. [3]

7. KS-1 rifle - Wikipedia

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   The KS family of rifles was unveiled at military small arms conventions in 2022 as being developed for an international special operations forces (SOF) requirement. [1] In September 2023, the British Armed Forces selected the KS-1 rifle under Project Hunter to replace the L85A2-A3 and L119A1-A2 rifles used by the British Army Special Operations Brigade and elements of the Royal Marines ...