"These are designed to use from planes or ground vehicles," he said, producing a lightweight rifle and tossing it to Rayford.

To produce very high bullet velocities, these relatively lightweight and very distinctively streamlined rifles have long (typically 26in) barrels.

Carbine Carbine, a lightweight rifle with a short barrel.

Savina lay belly-down in the grass, aiming the lightweight rifle at nothing in particular.

In an effort to provide infantry with a man-portable lightweight anti-tank rifle, Dipl.-Ing.

Daniel Fraser of Edinburgh, Scotland built him a special, lightweight rifle in that calibre.

This decreased recoil energy made possible a reliable, lightweight semi-automatic rifle with existing technology.

It is intended to fill the role of a versatile, lightweight all-around rifle as specified in Jeff Cooper's scout rifle concept.

The members of the 173rd were among the first soldiers to use M-16s, the lightweight rifle that became the standard for American forces.

And front-line troops need flak jackets and new lightweight rifles to replace the more than 30-year-old wooden-stock ones they carry now.