intermediate cartridge

In time, the British position on intermediate cartridges was vindicated.

Prior to committing to the 5.56mm, the British Army conducted additional intermediate cartridge research.

The first intermediate cartridge to see widespread service was the German 7.92x33mm Kurz.

Chambered for the 5.56x45mm intermediate cartridge, the M16 displaced the M14 which had been adopted little more than a decade earlier.

It uses a smaller intermediate cartridge, the 5.45x39mm, replacing the 7.62x39mm chambering of earlier Kalashnikov-pattern weapons.

Some of these automatic firearms used pre-existing rounds; others used new intermediate cartridges.

In the same period, 1950-60's, experimental automated manufacture of then-standard intermediate cartridges in 7.62x39mm was launched at the plant.

The AKM is an assault rifle using the 7.62x39mm Soviet intermediate cartridge.

The 5.56x45mm NATO cartridge is also an intermediate cartridge.

In 1969, the Enfield factory began work on a brand new family of weapons, chambered in a newly designed British 4.85x49mm intermediate cartridge.

In the late 1940s the Belgians joined with Britain and selected a British .280 (7x43 mm) intermediate cartridge for further development.

As their recoil is significantly reduced compared to high power rifle cartridges, fully automatic rifles firing intermediate cartridges are relatively easy to control.

The .30 Walker is an intermediate cartridge developed by Mark Walker of Houston, Texas.

However, this operating system proved to be problematic with the relatively "weak" 5.56x45mm intermediate cartridge, and the designers were forced to use a gas-operated, roller-locked system.

At the time, the British were developing their own 7x43mm (.280 British) intermediate cartridge for their modern EM-2 bullpup assault rifle.

The weapon employed the same 7.92x33mm Kurz intermediate cartridge as the earlier StG 44 assault rifle and also used the same detachable 30-round box magazine.

Later, the German forces fielded the Sturmgewehr 44 during World War II, a light automatic rifle firing a reduced power "intermediate cartridge".

The Carbine and cartridge were not intended to serve as a primary infantry weapon, nor was it comparable to more powerful intermediate cartridges later developed for assault rifles.

July 2002: Noted American firearms journalist David M. Fortier and Bill Alexander share ideas for a 6.5mm Intermediate cartridge.

An assault rifle is a selective fire (selective between automatic, semi-automatic, and burst fire) rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.

As testing of the Stoner rifle progressed, army ordnance finally decided to look more seriously at the intermediate cartridge concept, and the 5.56x45mm NATO was born.

The lower power of the intermediate cartridge meant that each soldier could fire more bullets faster and/or with less recoil and its lighter weight allowed more ammunition to be carried.

Purchasers of the HK417 have typically intended it to complement lighter assault rifles chambered for less powerful intermediate cartridges (often 5.56x45mm NATO), for the designated marksman's role.

One attempt to combine an intermediate cartridge with an automatic rifle by the Italian arms company Beretta resulted in the MAB 38 (Moschetto Automatico Beretta 1938).

After testing this prototype in 1948, the British Army urged FN to build additional prototypes, including one in bullpup configuration, chambered for their new .280 British caliber intermediate cartridge.