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The Colt Automatic Rifle or Colt Light Machine Gun is a 5.56 mm NATO, open-bolt, full-automatic-only firearm developed by Colt Defense.It is based on the M16A2/A4, and has a distinctive squared-off handguard, vertical grip, carrying handle and integrated bipod.
Colt design engineer Henry A. Into recalled that they wanted a selective-fire weapon as the basis of their replacement for the M1911A1. Colt designers looked at the smallest submachine guns of the day (including the Czech Škorpion vz. 61 , and Uzi ), and tinkered with making full-auto versions of high-magazine-capacity pistols (such as the ...
The Colt Advanced Piston Carbine or Colt APC (internal product number P0923) is a lightweight modular 5.56mm caliber piston-operated, magazine fed carbine with a one-piece upper receiver which is capable of firing in automatic and semi-automatic modes.
The M16A2 fires the improved 5.56×45mm (M855/SS109) cartridge and has a newer adjustable rear sight, case deflector, heavy barrel, improved handguard, pistol grip, and buttstock, as well as a semi-auto and three-round burst fire selector. [21] Adopted in July 1997, the M16A4 is the fourth generation of the M16 series.
The M4 carbine (officially Carbine, Caliber 5.56 mm, M4) is a 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle developed in the United States during the 1980s. It is a shortened version of the M16A2 assault rifle.
The key design change was the use of "duplex rounds", a single cartridge with two bullets in it.Olin Corporation produced three different rounds for testing, the first consisting of two tungsten projectiles in a long-necked case, the second used a standard-length case with two 1.7 grams (27 gr), 4.0-millimetre (0.158 in) tungsten projectiles, and the final entry was another standard-length ...
Colt ACR: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm M855 or Duplex United States: no 1982 Colt Advanced Piston Carbine: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm United States: yes 2010s-present Colt CM901: Colt Defense: 5.56×45mm 6.8mm Remington SPC 7.62×39mm United States: c.2012–present Colt MARS Colt: 5.56×30mm Mars United States: 1997
The Colt AR-15 is a product line of magazine-fed, gas-operated, autoloading rifle manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company ("Colt") in many configurations. [1] The rifle is a derivative of its predecessor, the lightweight ArmaLite AR-15 , an automatic rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and other engineers at ArmaLite in 1956.