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Danish M.1889 carbine. After strenuous tests, Denmark adopted the Krag–Jørgensen rifle on July 3, 1889. The Danish rifle differed in several key areas from the weapons later adopted by the United States and Norway, particularly in its use of a forward (as opposed to downward) hinged magazine door, the use of rimmed ammunition, and the use of an outer steel liner for the barrel.
The Springfield Model 1892–99 Krag–Jørgensen rifle is a Norwegian-designed bolt-action rifle that was adopted in 1892 as the standard United States Army military longarm, chambered for U.S. caliber .30-40 Krag cartridges.
The .30-40 Krag, also known as the .30 U.S. and .30 Army, was a rifle cartridge developed in the early 1890s to provide the U.S. armed forces with a smokeless powder cartridge suited for use with modern small-bore repeating rifles to be selected in the 1892 small arm trials.
1.2 Rifles. 1.3 Submachine guns. 1.4 Machine guns. 2 Artillery. Toggle Artillery subsection. ... Krag–Jørgensen M1894 [2] Krag-Petersson reserves; Kammerlader ...
Ole H. J. Krag was born in Vågå, in Oppland county, Norway. Krag grew up in various locations where his father, Hans Peter Schnitler Krag (1794–1855), served as pastor, including Vågå, Fredrikshald (Halden) and Christiania (Oslo). Krag was a student at Hartvig Nissens skole in Oslo. He started his military career in January 1854.
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This is a list of the weapons of Denmark during World War II. This list will be for the Danish military as they were at the German invasion of Denmark (1940).You are welcome to put down weapons used by the resistance and after the successful invasion but put them under a different section title to differentiate them.
Krag–Jørgensen: Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk: 8×58mmR Danish Krag.30-40 Krag 6.5×55mm Swedish: Bolt-action Norway: 1886 Karabiner 98k: Mauser: 7.92×57mm Mauser: Bolt-action Germany: 1935 Mosin–Nagant: Tula Izhevsk Sestroryetsk: 7.62×54mmR: Bolt-action Russian Empire: 1891 M38 DMR: Heckler & Koch: 5.56×45mm NATO: Short-stroke piston (select ...