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The VHS (Croatian: Višenamjenska Hrvatska Strojnica, lit. multifunctional Croatian machine gun) is a 5.56×45mm NATO bullpup assault rifle designed and manufactured by HS Produkt of Croatia. The VHS rifle was first introduced at the 2007 iKA exhibition, the annual Croatian innovation display that takes place in the city of Karlovac . [ 6 ]
The company's rifle offerings include the M1A, the Hellion (imported VHS-2), and the SAINT line of AR-15 style rifles and short-barreled rifles. The M1A line includes offerings such as standard, loaded, SOCOM, national match, and tanker models. In 2016, the first SAINT rifle was introduced, [4] with a pistol variant following a year later. [5]
HS Produkt VHS: HS Produkt: 5.56×45mm NATO Croatia: 2005 INSAS Bullpup (prototype) Armament Research and Development Establishment: 5.56×45mm NATO India IFAR 22: PT Republik Armamen Industri: 5.56×45mm NATO Indonesia: 2022 Tavor TAR-21: Israel Weapon Industries: 5.56×45mm NATO 9×19mm Parabellum 5.56×30mm MINSAS 5.45×39mm Israel: 1995 ...
VHS assault rifle is a 5.56×45mm NATO bullpup select-fire weapon that was first introduced at the 2007 iKA, the annual Croatian innovation display that takes place in the city of Karlovac. [29] The development was carried on following a request of the Croatian Army for a new infantry rifle to update the individual equipment to NATO standards.
The Springfield entry was most interesting for its layout. It used two 30-round magazines in tandem in a bullpup layout , taking rounds from the front magazine first. However, their massive magazine-fed grenade launcher pushed the weight to 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms), and it seemed unlikely this could be reduced by much.
The British Army had considered bullpup designs with intermediate calibre rounds in the 1950s, and officially adopted one of these as .280 British in 1951 in the EM-2 and Taden gun. However, US intransigence during NATO standardization efforts, and Winston Churchill 's interest in standards above all, led to the adoption of the 7.62×51mm NATO ...
S&T Daewoo XK8, also known as DAR-21 (Daewoo Assault Rifle-21st Century), [1] is a 5.56×45mm NATO bullpup assault rifle developed and manufactured by S&T Daewoo intended to replace Daewoo Precision Industries K2 assault rifle for the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.
TKB-059 (ТКБ-059) was a Soviet three-barrel bullpup assault rifle, capable of fully automatic fire, chambered for the 7.62×39mm round and manufactured by Tula Arms Plant in 1966. It was based on the Device 3B (Прибор 3Б), an earlier experimental assault rifle that also had three barrels. [ 3 ]