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  2. M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System - Wikipedia

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    The M26-MASS (Modular Accessory Shotgun System) is a shotgun configured as an underbarrel ancillary weapon attachment mounted onto the handguard of a service rifle, usually the M16/M4 family of United States military, essentially making the host weapon a combination gun.

  3. Personal Load Carrying Equipment - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of the PLCE webbing system is to retain the means by which a soldier may operate for 48 hours or conduct a mission-specific task. Items and components may include a variety of munitions and weapon ancillaries, a three-fold entrenching tool, a bayonet, food and water (including a means to heat water and prepare food), chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) protective ...

  4. Ammunition box - Wikipedia

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    M2 Browning with metal ammunition box Paperboard boxes of .22 rifle ammunition. An ammunition box or cartridge box is a container designed for safe transport and storage of ammunition.

  5. Modular Tactical Vest - Wikipedia

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    Integrated side SAPI pouches. Integrated channels for communications wiring. Rifle bolster to assist in seating the wearer's rifle. Same modular PALS webbing as the Interceptor. A changed closure system. This was intended to be an improvement, but some wearers have complained that it takes too long to put on because the vest slips over the head.

  6. Magazine (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    En bloc clip and 8mm ammo for the Gewehr 88 Swedish Mauser stripper clip loaded with Swedish 6.5×55mm. The bolt-action Krag–Jørgensen rifle, designed in Norway in 1886, used a unique rotary magazine that was built into the receiver. Like Lee's box magazine, the rotary magazine held the rounds side-by-side, rather than end-to-end.

  7. SOPMOD - Wikipedia

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    The Special Operations Peculiar MODification (SOPMOD) kit is an accessory system for the M4A1 carbine, CQBR, FN SCAR Mk 16/17, HK416 and other weapons used by United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) special forces units, though it is not specific to SOCOM.

  8. M24 sniper weapon system - Wikipedia

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    The M24 is referred to as a "weapon system" because it consists of not only a rifle, but also a detachable telescopic sight and other accessories. The M24 SWS has the "long action" bolt version of the Remington 700 receiver but is chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO "short action" cartridge that has an overall length of 2.750 inches (69.85 mm ...

  9. Ammunition - Wikipedia

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    Ammunition, also known as ammo, is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system. [1] The term Ammunition includes both expendable weapons (e.g., bombs , missiles , grenades , land mines ), and the component parts of other weapons that create the effect on a target (e.g., bullets and warheads ).