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Cartridge, Caliber 5.56 mm Ball, Enhanced 5.56 mm Carbine, MK318 MOD 0: 5.56×45mm 62-grain Open-Tipped Match Boat-Tail cartridge. Optimized for use with 14-inch barreled weapons like the M4A1 Carbine and MK16 SCAR and designed to penetrate light barriers like windshields or car doors with no loss of accuracy or damage.
The table below gives a list of firearms that can fire the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, first developed and used in the late 1970s for the M16 rifle, which to date, is the most widely produced weapon in this caliber. [1] Not all countries that use weapons chambered in this caliber are in NATO. This table is sortable for every column.
5.45×39mm cartridge of the AK-74 assault rifle; 5.56×45mm NATO (.223 Remington) of the M16 assault rifle and M4 carbine; 5.8×42mm cartridge of the QBZ-95 assault rifle.30 Carbine (7.62×33mm) cartridge of the US M2 select fire carbine and M1 semi-automatic carbine [18].345 Winchester Self-Loading of the Winchester-Burton M1917 automatic rifle
5.56x45mm Ball (M193), Match (55 gr & 69 gr) cartridges produced by Government Arsenal. Items portrayed in this file depicts. creator. some value.
The ammunition was bulk-packed in standard 20-round cartons without stripper clips to maximize the amounts delivered and the packaging was marked in the Chinese language. In 1944 there was a contract to make 30-million modified Springfield-type Mauser-compatible stripper clips which were bulk-packed in ammo cans. Due to the long transport times ...
A worker at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant packs two cans of newly manufactured 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition into a wirebound crate. (c. 1998) Headstamp of a .50 caliber cartridge casing made at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in 1943 and recovered from the Sahuarita Bombing and Gunnery Range in 2012.
The XM214 Microgun is an American prototype 5.56 mm rotary-barreled machine gun. It was designed and built by General Electric . The XM214 was a scaled-down smaller and lighter version of the M134 Minigun , firing M193 5.56×45mm ammunition.
The 4.85×49mm cartridge is based on the 5.56×45mm NATO, but uses a 5 mm bullet and has a longer neck than the 5.56mm does. Muzzle velocity is better than the M193 5.56mm loading, which this cartridge was designed to compete against. The 4.85×49mm cartridge weighs 55 grains (3.6 g).