Rifles

= ﻿Assualt Rifles- __Home__ = A rifle is a firearm that is designed to be shot from the shoulder. Rifles are used in warfare, hunting and shooting sports. Formerly, rifles only fired a single projectile with each squeeze of the trigger. Modern assault rifles are capable of firing more than one round per trigger squeeze; some fire in a fully automatic mode and others are limited to bursts of three to five rounds per squeeze.

AK47 - The AK47 is a gas operated rifle first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. Designing of the AK started in the last year of WW2 (1945). In the year 1949 it was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces and used by the majority of the member states of the Warsaw Pact. The original AK-47 was one of the first true "assault rifles" to be manufactured since the original Sturmgewehr 44. It has been manufactured in many countries and has seen service with regular armed forces as well as irregular, revolutionary and terrorist organizations worldwide. The AK-47 was the basis for developing many other types of individual and crew-served firearms. More AK-type rifles have been produced than all other assault rifles combined.



M16- The M16  (more formally Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16 ) is the United States military designation for the AR-15 rifle. Colt purchased the rights to the AR-15 fromArmaLite and currently uses that designation only for semi-automatic versions of the rifle. The M16 rifle fires the 5.56 times 45mm cartridge and can produce massive wounding effects when the bullet impacts at high velocity and yaws in tissue leading to fragmentation and rapid transfer of energy. The M16 entered United States Army service and was deployed for jungle warfare operations in South Vietnam in 1963, becoming the standard U.S. rifle of the Vietnam War by 1969, replacing the M14 rifle in that role.

