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The 7.62×54mmR originally had a 13.7 g (210 grain) "jager" round-nosed full metal jacket (FMJ) bullet. The projectile was replaced in 1908 by the 9.61-gram (148.3 gr) Лёгкая Пуля ( Lyogkaya pulya , "light bullet") spitzer bullet , whose basic design has remained to the present.
Cartridge, caliber 7.62mm, NATO, frangible, M160: 108.5-grain (7.0 g) 7.62×51mm NATO frangible bullet, upon striking a target, disintegrates, leaving a mark at the point of impact. Cartridge, caliber 7.62mm, NATO, dummy, M172: 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge is inert and is used to test the mechanism and metallic link belts of 7.62mm weapons. The ...
The point I'm making is that what appears to have happened is that the cartridge was originally known in the West as 7.62mm Russian, and then when the nomenclature system was overhauled later in the 20th Century, the designation was changed to 7.62x54 Rimmed, just as .30-30 Winchester is 7.62x51 Rimmed to differentiate it from the 7.62x51 NATO ...
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. This ammunition was developed following World War II as part of the NATO small arms standardization, it is made to replicate the ballistics of a pre-WWII full power rifle cartridge in a more compact package. Not all countries that use weapons chambered in this ...
NATO cartridge may refer to: Small arms 9×19mm NATO (STANAG 4090) 4.6×30mm NATO (STANAG 4820) 5.7×28mm NATO (STANAG 4509) 5.56×45mm NATO (STANAG 4172) 7.62×51mm NATO (STANAG 2310) 12.7×99mm NATO (STANAG 4383) 40 mm grenade (×46 mm LV, ×51 mm MV, ×53 mm HV) Autocannons 20×102mm (STANAG 3585), 20 mm caliber; 25×137mm (STANAG 4173), 25 ...
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×54mmR cartridge. The cartridge was originally developed for the Mosin–Nagant rifle and introduced in 1891 by the Russian Empire. It was the service cartridge of the late Tsarist era and throughout the Soviet period to the present-day Russia and other countries as well.
An intermediate cartridge is a rifle/carbine cartridge that has significantly greater power than a pistol cartridge but still has a reduced muzzle energy compared to fully powered cartridges (such as the .303 British, 7.62×54mmR, 7.65×53mm Mauser, 7.92×57mm Mauser, 7.7×58mm Arisaka, .30-06 Springfield, or 7.62×51mm NATO), and therefore is ...
This evolved into the 7.62×40mm CETME M53, which was identical aside from the smaller diameter bullet. Eventually [when?] they decided on a variant of the new 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge that they designated the 7.62×51mm CETME. The 7.62mm CETME had a lighter full-metal-jacketed, plastic-cored lead bullet with a reduced powder charge.