Showing posts with label Assault Rifle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Assault Rifle. Show all posts
Sunday, May 29, 2011

History and Development of the Assault Rifle - X

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With the advent of bullpup designs in the 1970s such as the Austrian Steyr AUG and the French FAMAS, some of the newer designs that have e...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

History and Development of the Assault Rifle - IX

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A couple of posts ago , we saw how the US adoption of the M-16 and its 5.56x45 mm. cartridge led to the various member countries of NATO als...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

History and Development of the Assault Rifle - VIII

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In the last few posts, we saw during the development of the M-16 rifle, that the US military had determined that "small is beautiful...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

History and Development of the Assault Rifle - VII

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In our last post, we studied how the AR-15 rifle was morphed into the M16 A1 model. Where we last left off was during the Vietnam war. The...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

History and Development of the Assault Rifle - III

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In this post, we will look at the history of one of the most famous assault rifles in history, the AK-47. The AK family is pretty widespread...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

History and Development of the Assault Rifle - II

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When World War I started, the French introduced a light machine gun called the Chauchat. While it was capable of selecting both single and a...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

History and Development of the Assault Rifle - I

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In the next series of posts, we will study the evolution of the modern assault rifle. First let us go back a few centuries in time and stu...
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