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It then became widely known under the designation "7,62мм винтовочный патрон" (7.62 mm rifle cartridge). The round has erroneously come to be known as the "7.62mm Russian" (and is still often referred to as such colloquially), but, according to standards, the R in designation (7.62×54mmR) stands for "rimmed", in line with ...
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×54mmR cartridge. The cartridge was originally developed for the Mosin–Nagant rifle and introduced in 1891 by the Russian Empire. It was the service cartridge of the late Tsarist era and throughout the Soviet period to the present-day Russia and other countries as well.
The 7.62 mm designation refers to the internal diameter of the barrel at the lands (the raised helical ridges in rifled gun barrels). The actual bullet caliber is often 7.82 mm (0.308 in), although Soviet weapons commonly use a 7.91 mm (0.311 in) bullet, as do older British (.303 British) and Japanese (7.7×58mm Arisaka) cartridges.
Cartridge, caliber 7.62mm, NATO, frangible, M160: 108.5-grain (7.0 g) 7.62×51mm NATO frangible bullet, upon striking a target, disintegrates, leaving a mark at the point of impact. Cartridge, caliber 7.62mm, NATO, dummy, M172 : 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge is inert and is used to test the mechanism and metallic link belts of 7.62mm weapons.
The feed is not straightforward, as the gun fires the 7.62×54mmR round, and this has to be withdrawn rearwards from the belt before ramming into the breech. The reciprocating motion is achieved by using two claws to pull the round from the belt, and then an arm pushes the round into the cartridge guide ready for the bolt to carry it to the breech.
The C.I.P. lists the projectile diameter as 7.83 mm (.311–.312 caliber), which is the same bullet diameter as the British .303 British cartridges and Soviet ".30 caliber" rounds like 7.62×39mm. .308 Winchester(7.62 mm)-size bullets are safe and usable but would not necessarily be the most accurate. Reloading in this chambering is a nuisance ...
The PSL is chambered for the same 7.62×54mmR (rimmed) cartridge as the Dragunov, and feeds from a ten-round detachable box magazine. The magazine used on the PSL differs from that of Dragunov models in that it is stamped with an X-shaped pattern on the side, rather than the waffle style stamp found on the Russian and Chinese magazines. The ...
7.62×51mm variant of Pindad SS2. Pindad SM-2: General-purpose machine gun Indonesia 2003–present Licensed copy of the FN MAG: Karabiner 98k: Bolt-action rifle Israel 1958–1970s Rechambered from the original 7.92×57mm Mauser. IMI Galil AR: Battle rifle Israel 1972–present 7.62×51mm variant of IMI Galil. IWI Tavor 7: Bullpup battle rifle ...