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	5.56 x 45 mm NATO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In light of experiences with the M14 rifle and the 7.62 mm cartridge, 5.56 mm amunition was introduced for use in the American M16 rifle in the 1960s.
		Of the cartridges tendered the 5.56 mm was successful, but not the 5.56 loading as used by the US at that time, but the Belgian offer, the SS109 loading, with a heavier bullet at a lower muzzle velocity for better long-range performance.
		Many nations and weapons use the 5.56 mm NATO cartridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/5.56_mm_caliber

	PakDef Forums - POF G-3 Replacement
		Since POF G-3 is 7.62 mm assualt rifle and NATO and other countries have while back opted for newer and lighter HK-56 which is a G-3 with 5.56 mm assualt rifle, what do you feel that POF should start to look for newer assualt rifle.
		A 5.56 caliber is a more lethal caliber.
		A 7+ mm caliber will break the bone with minimal deflection and trajectory will remain the same.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=1769 (1647 words)

	5.56 mm caliber - TheBestLinks.com - 5.56mm caliber, AK-47, Ammunition, Hydrostatic shock, ...
		The bullet itself is 0.75 inches (20 mm) long and 0.25 inches (5.56 mm) in diameter.
		5.56 mm caliber, also known by Remington.223 or 5.56 mm NATO is the size of standard rifle ammunition for NATO forces.
		5.56 mm amunition was introduced for use in the American M16 rifle in the 1960s.
	www.thebestlinks.com /5.56mm_caliber.html (298 words)

	6.8x43mm SPC Rifles - Tactical Forums
		While the 5.56 mm BH 100 gr OTM load offers impressive terminal performance, it�s external ballistics are not ideal; the 5.56 mm 75/77 gr OTM�s are more versatile and a better overall choice for most end-users.
		In general, the military use of OTM projectiles in 5.56 mm, 6.8 mm, 7.62 mm/.308, and.300 Win Mag has been declared to be consistent with the international law obligations of the United States, including the law of war.
		I do seem to recall seeing something (I do not remember where) that the 115 gr 6.8 mm bullet was selected over a somewhat heavier one because of a desire to flatten the trajectory out to 300 meters (presumably for rapidly engaging targets without having to make large sight picture changes).
	www.tacticalforums.com /ubb/Forum78/HTML/000512-8.html (298 words)

	WHAT
		Ever since the US army introduced the Eugene Stoner designed M-16, a 5.56 mm caliber automatic rifle in the latter stages of the Vietnam War, the 5.56 weapon has been the NATO standard.
		Even though the INSAS 5.56 mm rifle has been around for a few years now, but there doesn’t seem enough of them for most of our troops still carry the AK-47 or the old Ishapore 7.62 mm semi-automatic rifle.
		First was due to the fact that the larger 7.62 mm round needed a bigger explosive charge to propel it at the desired 900 meters per second.
	www.indiadefence.com /INSAS.htm (1587 words)

	WHAT
		Even though the INSAS 5.56 mm rifle has been around for a few years now, but there doesn’t seem enough of them for most of our troops still carry the AK-47 or the old Ishapore 7.62 mm semi-automatic rifle.
		Ever since the US army introduced the Eugene Stoner designed M-16, a 5.56 mm caliber automatic rifle in the latter stages of the Vietnam War, the 5.56 weapon has been the NATO standard.
		First was due to the fact that the larger 7.62 mm round needed a bigger explosive charge to propel it at the desired 900 meters per second.
	www.indiadefence.com /INSAS.htm (1587 words)

	Armor piercing small caliber projectile - Patent 4619203
		It would seem that little further could be done to improve the 5.56 mm round, since 5.56 mm is too small to reduce its caliber further to give a saboted round, except perhaps to single flechette, and as yet flechette rifle rounds have all been abandoned as unseccessful.
		The first is the reintroduction of the steel nosed lead bullet in such forms as the new NATO 5.56 mm round (called the "M855 by the U.S. Army).
		A small caliber armor-piercing bullet is described in which a case hardened steel nosed lead projectile is utilized to help reduce projectile fragmentation at impact.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4619203.html (1283 words)

	Weapons-Then and Now
		empty 8.79 lb.with 30 rd mag 10.99 lb.with 30 rd mag Caliber:.30 (7.62 mm) 5.56 mm 5.56 mm and 40 mm Muz.Vel: 2,300 FPS 2,800 FPS 2,800 FPS Eft Rng: 400 yds 500 yds 600 yds-5.56 mm 450 yds-40 mm
		loaded Caliber:.45".45" 9 mm Muz.Vel: 830 FPS 830 FPS 1,200 FPS Ammo: 7 rd. mag.
		Manufact: S.P.A.D Mc Donnell Douglas GENERAL DYNAMICS Arms:.303 MG 20 mm nose cannon 20 mm nose cannon 16,000 lb stores 17,200 lb stores Speed: 139 mph 1450 mph 1300 mph Range: 185 845 miles 680 miles
	members.aol.com /wmm161/wpns.htm (1283 words)

	7.62 mm Versus 5.56 mm - Does NATO Really Need Two Standard
		The other members of NATO adopted either the German G3 or the Belgian FN FAL as their standard 7.62mm NATO caliber service rifles.8 The 5.56 x 45mm cartridge and the M16 rifle was originally developed and unilaterally adopted by the United States in 1963 for initial employment in Southeast Asia.
		Although the selection of the 5.56 x 45mm cartridge was based on extensive testing, research, and documented battle per- formance, this intermediate power round is not the optimum ammu- nition and caliber for U. and NATO forces in the contemplated battlefields of the future.
		Thesis Statement Although the selection of the 5.56 x 45mm cartridge was based on extensive testing, research, and documented battle performance, this intermediate power round is not the optimum ammunition and caliber for U. and NATO forces in the contemplated battlefields of the future.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1986/MVT.htm (4832 words)

	M4 Carbine [Definition]
		The M4/M4A1 5.56 mm 5.56 x 45 mm NATO, similar to, and thus commonly called the Remington.223 cartridge, is the size of standard rifle ammunition for NATO forces.
		It was used as an alternative to the previous NATO standard ammunition size, 7.62 mm caliber.
		Caliber The word caliber (American English) or calibre (British English) designates the interior diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod.
	www.wikimirror.com /M4_Carbine (4832 words)

	Guns For Sale: GunsAmerica Gun Classifieds: Guns Browser
		The 12”, smoothbore,.56 caliber, pin-fastened, round, iron barrel with two Board of Ordnance, proof marks on the center of the baluster-ringed breech and a Crown acceptance mark on the tang: marked on the top of the breech with a "K's R Guards" Regimental marking for the (King's Royal Guards Heavy Dragoon Regiment).
		Round, iron,.56 caliber, smoothbore, 12 1/2" barrel with two Board of Ordnance Tower proofs at the breech and a Crown acceptance mark on the tang.
		The octagonal to round, turn-off.38 caliber, 3" smoothbore, iron barrel with an octagonal engraved breech and a cannon-type muzzle.
	www.gunsamerica.com /2121/2121-newfirst-1.htm (4832 words)

	AK-47.net: YugoImports ZASTAVA M80 & M80A
		The knife may be fitted to the rifle cal 7.62 x 39 mm M70 and any version utilizing the cartridge 7.62 x 39 mm and also to the f\rifle based on the cartridge 7.62 x 51 mm (NATO), rifles based on cartridge 5.56 mm and sniper rifle 7.92 mm M76.
		The Zastava M80 and M80A automatic rifles belong to the family of automatic weapons (automatic rifles M80 and M80A, light machine guns M82 and M82A and submachine gun M85) designed on the basis of the cartridge 5.56 x 45 mm.
		The weapons of this family use the same magazine and have the same main component parts.
	www.ak-47.net /ak47/yugo.html (184 words)

	.223 Remington -
		The.223 Remington is a sporting cartridge of almost the same physical dimensions as the 5.56 x 45 mm NATO cartridge but with a difference in the "lead" of the chamber throat.
		The.223 Remington can be safely fired in a 5.56 mm chamber, but the reverse is an unsafe combination that causes extreme pressures and could damage or destroy the rifle.
		The.223 Remington was developed as an enlarged and higher velocity version of the.222 Remington, which had existed in the 1950's as a varmint cartridge.
	psychcentral.com /wiki/Remington_.223 (260 words)

	PakDef Forums - Misc questions?
		Ever since the US army introduced the Eugene Stoner designed M-16, a 5.56 mm caliber automatic rifle in the latter stages of the Vietnam War, the 5.56 weapon has been the NATO standard.
		First was due to the fact that the larger 7.62 mm round needed a bigger explosive charge to propel it at the desired 900 meters per second.
		The result of this was changes in infantry combat philosophy and in conformity with it the introduction of a light small caliber weapon in most armies keen to win their wars.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/printthread.php?t=2734 (3975 words)

	PakDef Forums - Army to equip counter-insurgency units with Israeli firearms
		With the INSAS 5.56 mm caliber already in use in Kashmir, the TAVOR (with Same caliber) purchase seems to be redundant especially when the INSAS is being produced as a rifle as well as a carbine.
		Army sources said that while special forces had already been equipped with American and Israeli weaponry, New Delhi is considering purchase of several thousand more Tavors to equip the entire counter-insurgency forces operating in Jammu and Kashmir, who are currently armed with AK-47 rifles imported earlier from Romania.
		The INSAS is seen as suitable for a convenional war of maneuver (say, with Pakistan) in which logistics would be a concern, but not for close combat with militants in Kashmir which requires heavy firepower without taxing logistical lines.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/printthread.php?t=3264 (1564 words)

	NDM Article - Army Will Boost Supply of Small Cal Ammo, Weapons
		For urban battles, the most needed ammunition ranges from the.50 caliber, 5.56 mm, 7.62 mm to 40 mm, Fahey said.
		The XM8 is the rifle portion of the OICW, which fires 5.56 mm bullets.
		Troops will be using approximately 1.5 billion small caliber rounds a year for the next several years, said Kevin Fahey, deputy program executive officer for ammunition.
	www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2004/Aug/Army_Will.htm (1128 words)

	Gunwriters' Questions and Answers, Part 14.
		That's why the Finns use caliber designation 8.2 x 57 mm from 7.9 x 57 JS Mauser cartridges and 8.2 x 53R from the "factory wildcat", based on the necked-up 7.62 x 53R case.
		All kind of hunting was banned with 7.62 x 53R caliber military rifles; at least these rifles in possession of Army personnel and members of Finnish Civil Guard, the Suojeluskunta.
		Two ports with diameter 4 mm, located at the breech end of barrel (less than 50 mm ahead of the point of a chambered bullet's point) are enough for deduction of the bore pressure and bullet velocity so that any and all "standard velocity" cartridges shall become TRULY subsonic cartridges.
	www.guns.connect.fi /gow/QA14.html (8658 words)

	M16 Resource Page - m16 rifle
		The M16 is a lightweight, 5.56 x 45 mm NATO, air cooled, gas operated, magazine fed rifle, with a rotating bolt, actuated by direct impingement gas operation.
		The British introduced a modified 5.56 mm round, using a longer and thinner bullet of 4.85 mm, mounted in the existing U.S. cartridges.
		The Steyr ACR used new flechette ammunition that was nominally called 5.56 mm, with a very high 4750 ft/s (1450 m/s) muzzle velocity.
	www.forensico.com /For-List_of_Firearms_M-/M16.html (6992 words)

	Primary Weapons of DF Task Force Dagger
		Caliber: 5.56 x 45 mm NATO / 40 mm
		Caliber: combination 5.56 x 45 mm and 20 mm HE
	www.firewalkers.net /information_armory_dftfd.html (19 words)

	11 mm caliber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the 11 mm (.433 in) caliber range.
		4 mm (.157 in) - 5 mm (.197 in) - 6 mm (.236 in) - 7 mm (.276 in) - 8 mm (.315 in) - 9 mm (.354 in) - 10 mm (.394 in) - 11 mm (.433 in) - 12 mm
		This page was last modified 04:56, 21 January 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/11_mm_caliber (120 words)

	7 mm caliber: Encyclopedia topic
		7.62 mm Tokarev (7.62 mm Tokarev: the 7.62 x 25 mm tt is a bottle-necked pistol cartridge widely used in soviet and...
		7.62 x 54 mm R (7.62 x 54 mm R: the 7.62 x 54 mm r rifle cartridge is a russian design dating from 1891....
		.303 British (.303 British: the.303 british (7.7 x 56 mm r) is a rifle and machine gun cartridge first developed...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/7_mm_caliber (276 words)

	7.62 mm Versus 5.56 mm - Does NATO Really Need Two Standard
		The other members of NATO adopted either the German G3 or the Belgian FN FAL as their standard 7.62mm NATO caliber service rifles.8 The 5.56 x 45mm cartridge and the M16 rifle was originally developed and unilaterally adopted by the United States in 1963 for initial employment in Southeast Asia.
		During the years just prior to World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army replaced their 6.5mm (.256 Caliber) rifle ammuni- tion with a 7.7mm (.303 Caliber) cartridge due to the smaller round's poor lethality and its inability to penetrate barriers and effectively stop enemy troops.
		In most of these conflicts, however, the 5.56mm weapons were employed against opponents armed with Soviet weapons also using intermediate power ammunition.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1986/MVT.htm (4832 words)

	Legion glossary (A-K) - a French Foreign Legion Forum : cervens.net
		Standard assault rifle in the French army in 5.56 mm caliber.
		Standard precision rifle for sharpshooters in 7.5 mm caliber.
		A place in every regiment or Legion base which is some sort of a mix between a bar and a general store where you can buy all sorts of goods (cigarettes, lighters, toilet articles, tee-shirts, etc.).
	www.cervens.net /legionbbs/showthread.php?t=72 (594 words)

	Snipers Paradise
		Special ammunitions, such as AP (armor piercing ammunition) and tracer ammunition are produced in caliber's 5.56 and 7.62 mm.
		The 7.62 SLAP and SLAP Tracer were developed by Winchester under U.S. Government contract.
		Winchester/Olin Corporation is the primary supplier of small caliber ammunition manufactured in the United States.
	www.snipersparadise.com /equipment/ammunition.htm (635 words)

	Ammunition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In western (NATO) forces, the 7.62 mm NATO round has been mostly replaced by the lighter 5.56 mm NATO round, which is better suited for automatic fire than the larger round and each soldier can carry more ammunition.
		The larger caliber ammunition is still retained where range and weight of shot is important eg machine guns and sniper rifles.
		Every reduction in the caliber (size) of the rifle's ammunition means an increase in the number of rounds carried.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ammunition (3155 words)

	Dyer Company Online Catalog
		Designed for both rifles and handguns of.22 to.45 caliber, the 272 Series Non-Tipping Comparative Gages are available to measure barrel lengths up to 31.50" (800 mm).
		22 Hornet, 222 Remington, 223 Remington (5.56 mm), 222 Remington Magnum, 22
		(0.I mm and 0.6 mm) - allows use of the same nose guide to measure both lands and grooves, providing a greater range of gage application, and consequent cost savings, than that available in other systems.
	www.dyergage.com /dy272.htm (3155 words)

	Re: 6.8 mm for the M16
		Im wondering if there is a sane and reasonable way to calculate how long a small caliber (5.56 would be nice) can be before it becomes impractical to impart enough spin without chewing off the projectile's steel jacket, ripping out the rifling or other wise doing damage with the high velocities that are needed.
		When you consider the fact that the current "shorter" bullet is pretty marginally stabilized (absolutely intentional by the way), a longer projectile would obviously require more spin.
		The point is, "How close is the current round to such a limit, should that limit exist?" Regards bk
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/sci.military.moderated/msg00976.html (3155 words)

	THE NEW KALASHNIKOVS OF AK-100 SERIES.
		When caliber 5.45 x 39 mm weapons were introduced into mass production to replace the rifles in 7.62 x 39 mm, it was discovered that most of the Russian traditional foreign customers would think twice before placing firm purchase orders.
		Now having the Kalashnikovs in 5.56 x 45 mm IZHMASH seems to be ready to deal with those clients who were traditionally controlled by Western arms suppliers.
		In addition 5.45 x 39 mm ammunition was harder to get, while 7.62 x 39 mm was easy to come by.
	club.guns.ru /eng/ak100.htm (1104 words)

	Squad automatic weapon - RecipeFacts
		A squad automatic weapon (SAW) is a light or general-purpose machine gun, usually equipped with a bipod and firing a 7.62 mm or 5.56 mm rifle bullet.
		A SAW is used to provide suppressive fire for an infantry squad or section.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Squad_assault_weapon (538 words)

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