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 7.62 mm caliber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are many cartridges which use 7.62 mm caliber bullets.
7.62 mm refers to the diameter of the lands in the barrel (see article on rifling for description of lands).
The 7.62 x 54 mm R was first used in the Mosin-Nagant rifle in 1891.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/7.62_mm_caliber   (151 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)

  
 7.62 mm Versus 5.56 mm - Does NATO Really Need Two Standard
The large size of the 147-grain 7.62 mm projectile is more than sufficient to incorporate significant improvements in lethality and penetration.
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.
This cartridge propelled a small 125 grain bullet at a relatively moderate muzzle velocity of 2,100 fps (636 mps), Paralleling the evolution of the 7.9 mm Kurz was the development of a new, compact, select-fire rifle chambered for the new ammu- nition.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1986/MVT.htm   (4832 words)

  
 7 mm caliber
ammunition from [[World War II This article lists firearm cartridgess which have a bullet in the 7 mm caliber range.
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Circadian variation of bronchial caliber and antigen-induced late asthmatic response.
hallencyclopedia.com /7_mm_caliber   (245 words)

  
 Submachine guns, Light machine guns and Machine Guns used by the Finnish Army in the Winter War
It is known to been made only in 7.62 mm caliber for the Finnish Army and in 7.92 mm for the Chinese prior to World War II.
After the War of Independence, captured Russian 7.62 mm Maxims were the practical answer to Finland's need for a basic machine gun, but the Sokolov wheeled mount was not particularly well suited to forest terrain in Finland.
The M26 was chambered to fire the 7.62 mm Parabellum cartridge.
www.winterwar.com /Weapons/FinSmallArms/FinAutomatics.htm   (1132 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 30 mm caliber
The 30 mm caliber is a standard size of heavy machine gun (specifically autocannon) ammunition used by NATO forces.
Crewman relinking 25 mm rounds The 25 mm caliber is a standard size of heavy machine gun (specifically autocannon) ammunition for NATO forces.
Unlike its cousin the 25 mm round, the 30 mm is not typically an anti-personnel round.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/30-mm-caliber   (844 words)

  
 5.56 x 45 mm NATO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the time of selection, there had been criticism that the 7.62 x 51 mm round was overpowered for modern assault rifles, and smaller alternatives had been tendered.
The cartridge is 57 mm (approximately 2.25 inches) long and 9.7 mm (0.38 inches) in diameter.
The bullet itself is 0.75 inches (20 mm) long and 0.224 inches (5.7 mm) in diameter.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/5.56mm_caliber   (1030 words)

  
 7.62 mm Model 1895 Soviet Nagant Revolver
It was highly doubtful that the complicated firing mechanism of the revolver was worth the effort and, in 1930, it was replaced by the Tokarev Tula 33 7.62 Soviet Automatic.
However, it continued to be made in WWII, and numbers of the revolvers were used by both the North Koreans and CCF in Korea.
The purpose of these design features is to prevent gas leakage at the joint between the cylinder and barrel.
www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/nagrev.htm   (138 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Machine Gun
Light machine guns use ammunition of.30 caliber (7.62 mm) or less and are designed to have minimum weight so that a single soldier may use them.
The United States M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) is a portable, lightweight machine gun that fires 5.56-mm ammunition from continuous linked belts, or from linked ammunition contained in large-capacity magazines.
Machine guns are grouped into four general categories: light machine guns; general-purpose, or medium, machine guns; heavy machine guns; and externally powered machine guns.
encarta.msn.com /text_761562087___6/Machine_Gun.html   (510 words)

  
 seven_misc.txt
It fires a 7.62 mm NATO cartridge and weighs 8.7 pounds unloaded against 9.6 pounds for the M-1 (Garand).
The basic manual for the M-14 FM 23-8, Government Exhibit 30, reads as follows: "The M-14 rifle is a 7.62 mm magazine fed, gas operated, air cooled, semiautomatic shoulder-type weapon.
The gyrojet pistol is approximately the same size as a military.45 caliber pistol.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/usr/wbardwel/public/nfalist/seven_misc.txt   (7605 words)

  
 June Sample
The 7.62 mm M43 caliber AK magazine is reliable, but like the others, it is naturally subject to cause malfunctions if very dirty, damaged or well-worn.
Some examples of the 7.62 mm M43 caliber AK magazines have been converted to accept a stripper clip guide, similar to the one used with the AK-74 magazines.
There is no doubt that the 7.62 mm M43 caliber Kalashnikov assault rifle is the most popular small arm in the world.
www.smallarmsreview.com /june.htm   (1863 words)

  
 THE PKM GENERAL PURPOSE MACHINE GUN
The 7.62 x 39 mm M43 caliber cartridge was already standardised for the AK-47 assault rifles and SKS semi-automatic carbines.
One caliber for all infantry small arms would have been an ideal situation, but the 7.62 mm M43 seriously lacked both the penetration and effective range needed in a GPMG.
The 6 x 49 mm round has muzzle velocity equal to the 6 x 53 mm, it is also extremely hot having higher chamber pressures than the 6 x 53 mm.
club.guns.ru /eng/pkm.html   (3704 words)

  
 Black Hawk Down - Military.com Special Feature
This 7.62 mm caliber Soviet assault rifle is gas-operated and fires in semi-automatic or automatic mode.
The RPG7 is an 85 mm Soviet infantry anti-tank weapon.
The M-60 series general purpose machine gun is a light weight, belt fed, gas operated, air cooled weapon and timing to allow for the rapid exchange of barrels during sustained firing situations.
www.military.com /ContentFiles/BHDequipmentW   (149 words)

  
 Carcano
After World War II, Italy replaced its Carcano rifles with the US.30 caliber (7.62 mm) M-1 Garand semiautomatic rifle which the Italians labeled the Model 1952 (M52.) Large quantities of surplus Carcanos were sold in the USA and Canada beginning in the 1950s.
Some M38s were produced in the larger 7.35 x 51 mm caliber, but most retained the smaller standard 6.5 x 52 mm caliber of the Model 91.
A few M38 rifles issued to Italian troops in Africa were chambered for the larger caliber German 7.92 x 57 mm Mauser ammunition.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Carcano.htm   (471 words)

  
 ipedia.com: USS Nautilus (SS-168) Article
Decommissioned with a bottle of champagne over the forward six inch (152 mm) gun on 30 June, she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 23 July and sold 16 November, to the North American Smelting Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for scrapping.
USS Nautilus (SF-9/SS-168), a Narwhal-class submarine and one of the "V-boats," was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to bear that popular ship's name derived from a Greek word meaning "sailor" or "ship." The nautilus is also a tropical mollusk having a many-chambered, spiral shell with a pearly interior.
With the blowing of her main ballast tanks she was finally able to get off the reef within three and a half hours, despite the receding tide, and clear the area by dawn.
www.ipedia.com /uss_nautilus__ss_168_.html   (2147 words)

  
 American Rifleman: 7.62 mm NATO cartridge: A first-hand account from the U.S. representative at the Pendine Trials, The
Promptly rechristened as the 7.62 mm NATO, the new ammunition was also officially adopted by the U.S. in 1954 as the new national standard ammunition for rifles and rifle-caliber machine guns.
The experimental ammunition was at first identified as "Caliber.30 short" and later as "Caliber.30 T65" and "Caliber.30 Light-Rifle" before its standardization as 7.62 mm NATO ammunition early in 1954.
The 7.62 mm NATO cartridge was, in fact, the subject of the first NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG 2310) assuring the battlefield interchangeability of ammunition among the NATO allies.
newssearch.looksmart.com /p/articles/mi_qa3623/is_200208/ai_n9092276   (1097 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)

  
 Types
Dragunov sniper rifle (7.62 caliber, steel core bullets, V=840 m/sec,).
7.62 mm steell core bullet of Tokarev pistol.
It protects against 7.62 mm 30.06 AP bullet in accordance with NIJ 0101.03 standard at level IV.
www.fort.ru /eng/types.htm   (688 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Caliber: 7.62 TT The Tokarev pistol was designed when the Russians went through numerous trials to find a new pistol for their armed forces.
The.45 caliber semiautomatic pistol M1911A1 is a recoil-operated hand weapon.
WW2 Japanese Army pistol widely used in the South East asian theatres of war.
www.vietnamop.com /html/about_weapons.htm   (514 words)

  
 Reflex Suppressors
The muzzle-mounted KRS suppressor is especially designed for the 5.45 mm M74, 5.56 mm and 7.62 mm M43 caliber Kalashnikov type assault rifles with a left-handed metric M14 x 1 muzzle thread.
The size and number of baffles (6) of the Trooper suppressor have been optimized for 7.62 mm NATO caliber battle rifles, yet it is adaptable for other arms, too.
The tube diameter is 27 mm, and the overall length is 140 mm.
guns.connect.fi /innoplaza/rs/index.html   (821 words)

  
 Trigger-happy Kashmir militants beef up arsenal
New arms* RPD Light Machine Gun, origin: US, caliber: 7.62 mm, range: 1000 metres * General Purpose Machine Gun, origin: US, caliber: 762 mm, range: 1500 m * Luger Machine Gun, origin: Germany, caliber: 9 mm, range: 75 m * 7.63 MM Rifle, origin: Pakistan, caliber: 7.63 mm.
This Chinese-made gun has a caliber of 12.7 mm and can shoot down a chopper from a height of 1,600 metres.
Besides, it is the first time in the last one decade of militancy that a joint operation team of the BSF and Army have seized two Chinese-made recoilless guns from Surankot and Dodasanwala.
www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives2000/kashmir20000605a.html   (407 words)

  
 Weapons Data for Russian TC
The 7.62 mm Ruchnoy Pulemyot DP (Degtyaryov-pekhotny) was adopted by the Soviet army in 1928.
The M1895 served the Russian armed forces until it was replaced by the Tokarev Model 33 7.62 semi-automatic pistol sometime in the 1930’s.
The Germans even rechambered it for their standard 9 mm round and used their standard 32 rounds box magazines with it.
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 5.56 mm caliber - TheBestLinks.com - 5.56mm caliber, AK-47, Ammunition, Hydrostatic shock, ...
It was used as an alternative to the previous NATO standard ammunition size, 7.62 mm caliber.
The bullet itself is 0.75 inches (20 mm) long and 0.25 inches (5.56 mm) in diameter.
The cartridge is approximately 2.25 inches (57 mm) long and 0.38 inches (9.7 mm) in diameter.
www.thebestlinks.com /5.56mm_caliber.html   (298 words)

  
 Soviet Machine guns and Light Machine guns in the Winter War
7.62 mm M/ "Degtjarev tankovyi" DT (The tank version of the DP)
The Russian model 1910 machine gun, which was similar to the British Vickers with the only real difference being the caliber, was before World War 1 virtually the only machine gun in Russian servive (there was a small number of Madsen Model 1902 machine guns used in the Russian-Japanese War*).
During WW 1, Russia received from her Allies many new machine gun types.
www.winterwar.com /Weapons/SuSmallArms/SUAutomatics.htm   (542 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Big cache with weapons discovered on Chechen-Daghestan administrative border
In the outskirts of the village of Nizhny Noiber, the Gudermes district, in the forest near the Rostov-Baku highway, policemen found 4 shots for a grenade launcher, about 700 cartridges of a 7.62-mm caliber and 900 cartridges of a 5.45-mm caliber.
Submachine guns of different modifications, 8 magazines for submachine guns, 4 grenades, 3 shots for an antitank grenade launcher and 300 cartridges of a 5.45-mm caliber were discovered by the Kurchaloi interior department's officers in the outskirts of the village of Mairtup.
Chechen policemen of the Shatoi district in the village of Khal-Kiloi found three grenades and over 830 cartridges of a 5.45-mm caliber in a ruined building.
english.pravda.ru /hotspots/2002/10/23/38583_.html   (271 words)

  
 7.62mm (7.62 x 51 mm) Ammunition
TM 43-0001-27 Army Ammunition Data Sheets For Small Caliber Ammunition.
Its spread (accuracy standard) for a 10-shot group is no more than 12 inches (305 mm) at 600 yards (550 m) - fired from an accuracy barrel in a test cradle.
The cartridge is intended and specifically prepared for use in high accuracy weapons.
www.inetres.com /gp/military/infantry/rifle/762mm_ammo.html   (1410 words)

  
 Crimson Skies Campaign
The ammunition caliber in Crimson Skies are often stated just as 30, which is short for 0.30 inches.
Table for conversion calibers from inches to width.
This is easily converted to the more convenient metric system by multiplying with 25,4.
hem.passagen.se /mrmorden/crimsonskies/caliber2mm.html   (40 words)

  
 Killers turn to assault rifles : 7.62 mm weapons used in recent slayings
The 5.56mm, 5.45, 7.62 rounds in common use are all level III threats.
Although 7.62 mm rounds are used by AK-47s, Hagler said they also are used in other rifles, such as the SKS, a rifle that once was the preferred weapon in former Eastern Bloc nations but which are becoming increasingly popular here.
A spate of shootings using such 7.62 mm assault rifles as AK-47s has police worried about high-powered weapons better suited for war zones.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1433116/posts   (3703 words)

  
 US Only Small Arms Munitions Plant Near Limit
The plant provides 5.56 mm rifle, 7.62 mm and.50 caliber machine gun as well as 9 mm pistol cartridges for all branches of the military.
Because of the increased demand for ammunition since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Kern said the Army in late December let two supplemental contracts to Olin Winchester of East Alton, Ill., and Israeli Military Industries for each to produce 70 million rifle rounds per month starting in June.
www.rense.com /general47/polant.htm   (353 words)

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