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The invention of this rifle is credited to gunsmith Jean-Louis Joseph Prélaz [7] [8] and army officer Edouard Burnand. [7] [8] The rifle was submitted to an 1860 competition by Switzerland's Federal Ministry of Defence. It won and in 1864 [9] the company was awarded a contract to produce 30,000 [9] [8] Prelaz-Burnand rifles, adopted as the ...
SIG started to produce the Prélaz-Burnand in 1859. It was invented by gunsmith Jean-Louis Joseph Prélaz and forestry inspector Colonel Édouard Burnand (father of Swiss painter Eugène Burnand). In 1860, the rifle won a competition held by the Swiss Military Department, resulting in a contract to produce 30,000 pieces.
Eugène Burnand was born on 30 August 1850 in Chateau Billens, the property of his grandfather Charles Burnand, in Moudon, Vaud, Switzerland, a French speaking region north of Lausanne. His parents, (Colonel) Édouard Burnand and Henriette (née Foltz) were part of the Protestant bourgeois establishment of the town.
During the early to mid-Soviet era, Tula Arms Plant produced a variety military rifles, including the Mosin–Nagant, SVT-40, SKS, and AKM. It also produced the Nagant M1895 revolver . From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the factory produced the AK-74 , [ 5 ] and went on to manufacture the VSS Vintorez , AS Val , OTs-14 Groza , and TOZ ...
Historic German infantry rifles on display at the Spandau Citadel museum. The Royal Prussian Rifle Factory was established on the river Havel at Potsdam in 1722 by Frederick William I of Prussia . The facility was leased to private manufacturers until machinery was moved upstream to the confluence with river Spree in the westernmost Berlin ...
The MSBS GROT is a selective fire modular assault rifle which is capable of semi-automatic, 3-round burst and fully automatic fire. It has a cyclic rate of fire of around 700–900 rounds per minute. Currently only the MSBS Grot C in assault rifle, carbine, configuration with a grenade launcher, MSBS Grot R and MSBS Grot S are available.
In 1857, the Burnside carbine won a competition at West Point against 17 other carbine designs. In spite of this, few of the carbines were immediately ordered by the government, but this changed with the outbreak of the Civil War, when over 55,000 were ordered for use by Union cavalrymen. [3]
The Chassepot (pronounced / ˈ ʃ æ s p oʊ / SHAS-poh), officially known as Fusil modèle 1866, was a bolt-action military breechloading rifle.It is famous for having been the arm of the French forces in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.