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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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
The PDShP (Georgian: პდშპ) is a series of bullpup anti-materiel rifles developed by the Georgian Military Scientific-Technical Center STC Delta. The weapons are based on a bullpup design and there are different versions, Amr mod-1 and Amr mod-2. Development of the current series was completed in 2013. [1] [2] [3]
The Model 45A was a .30 caliber bullpup battle rifle/light machine gun developed by the United States Army in the Philippines in 1945. The weapon existed in prototype or mockup form, but never entered production.