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The table below gives a list of firearms that can fire the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, first developed and used in the late 1970s for the M16 rifle, which to date, is the most widely produced weapon in this caliber. [1]
When fired from a 20 in (510 mm) barrel at ranges of up to 300 feet (100 m), the thin-jacketed lead-cored round traveled fast enough (above 2,900 ft/s (880 m/s)) that the force of striking a human body would cause the round to yaw (or tumble) and fragment into about a dozen pieces of various sizes thus created wounds that were out of proportion ...
It appears that this round can drastically improve the performance of any AR-15 weapon chambered to .223/5.56 mm. Superior accuracy, wounding capacity, stopping power and range have made this the preferred round of many special forces operators, and highly desirable as a replacement for the older, Belgian-designed 5.56×45mm SS109/M855 NATO round.
0.405 [5] 56.72mm Same cartridge as .244 Remington and interchangeable. Rifles marked .244 Remington may not stabilize heaviest 6mm Remington bullets. [3] 6mm BR Norma: 1996 [14] Sweden 3 [15] [16] R 6x39.6mm 2789 [15] 0.243 0.517 [15] 39.6mm Norma's redesigned of the Remington 6mm BR in order to utilize VLD bullets. 6mm XC: 2000 US 4 [17] [18 ...
The symbols on the lower arc of the stamp indicates the caliber (7.7mm, 5.56mm or 7.62mm) and R# or R#M# indicate the model (R) and mark (M) of the cartridge, like the Commonwealth L#A# stamp (e.g., R1M1 is the first model and second Mark of a cartridge). Later, the 2-digit year is in the 12 o'clock position and a digit in the 6 o'clock ...
.40 S&W [16].400 AR (wildcat) [17].400 Legend [18].41-Grendel (wildcat) Straight Wall 6.5 Grendel Case, .41 or .416 Caliber depending on bullet choice. Wild Monkey.41-Legend (Wildcat) 400 Legend necked up to .41 or .416 Caliber depending on bullet choice. Wild Monkey.44 Automag (wildcat) [19].44 Remington Magnum [20].44 SOCOM (wildcat) [21]
Pistolengewehr [16] [17] [18] Waffenfabrik Bern, Adolf Fürrer 7.65x35mm Switzerland: no 1920–1921 Pușcă Automată model 1986: ROMARM: 5.45×39mm Romania: 1986–present PVAR rifle: United Defense Manufacturing Corporation: 5.56×45mm NATO Philippines: 2011 QBS-06: 5.8×42 DBS-06 China: 2010 QBZ-03: Norinco: 5.8×42mm 5.56×45mm NATO China ...
The Ares Defense Shrike 5.56 is an air-cooled, dual-feed light machine gun/rifle for semi or full-auto configurations that fires the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge. The Shrike 5.56 is sold as either as a complete weapon, or as an upper receiver "performance upgrade kit" to existing AR-15 and M16-type service rifles and carbines.