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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.
A smaller version of the AR-10 and adopted by the United States military as the M16 rifle. Later developed by Colt into a popular semi-automatic Colt AR-15. AR-16: 7.62×51mm NATO: ArmaLite: Prototype battle rifle. ArmaLite AR-17: 12 gauge: Semiautomatic 12ga 2shot shotgun based on the earlier AR-9. AR-18: 5.56×45mm NATO
The AR-10 is slightly larger and heavier than the AR-15. It was originally designed to chamber the military 7.62x51 NATO cartridge (also .308), which has a COAL of 2.800" (71.12mm) 45 Raptor , uses the standard 7.62 NATO case, cut to a length of 1.800" from 2.015", resulting in a straight-wall cartridge, neck is sized to 0.452".
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 ...
ArmaLite AR-15: Assault rifle United States 1962–1963 Stoner 63: Assault rifle United States 1963–1983 Also available as light machine gun and carbine. M16 rifle: Assault rifle United States 1964–present ArmaLite AR-18: Assault rifle United States 1969–present ArmaLite AR-100: Assault rifle United States Based on the ArmaLite AR-16.
ArmaLite, or Armalite, is an American small arms engineering company, formed in the early 1950s, in Hollywood, California.Many of its products, as conceived by chief designer Eugene Stoner, relied on unique foam-filled fiberglass butt/stock furniture, and a composite barrel using a steel liner inside an aluminum sleeve, including the iconic AR-15/M16 family.
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While Sterling could not legally sublicense the AR-18, their AR-18 derived Sterling Assault Rifle (SAR) was available. [2] [3] This was based on a refined version of the Light Automatic Rifle, fitted with an AR-18 trigger group. Sterling licensed the SAR design to CIS, who put it into production as the SAR 80.