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On December 8, 2010, Adcor announced production of the A-556 rifle to the civilian market. On June 27, 2011, it was announced that the improved A-556 Elite variant would be available for sale to the public. In June 2012, a soldier was seen in Afghanistan with a A-556 upper receiver with a 10.5 inch barrel on an M4 lower receiver. [4]
The 10.5 cm leFH 18 (German: leichte Feldhaubitze "light field howitzer") is a German light howitzer used in World War II and the standard artillery piece of the Wehrmacht, adopted for service in 1935 and used by all divisions and artillery battalions.
The Heckler & Koch HK416 is an assault rifle chambered for the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge.It is designed and manufactured by the German company Heckler & Koch.. Although the design is based on the AR-15 class of firearm (specifically the Colt M4 carbine family issued to the U.S. military), it uses a proprietary short-stroke gas piston system from Heckler & Koch's earlier G36 family of rifles.
The 10.5 cm SK C/32 was a built-up gun, 45 calibers long, with a jacket and breech that weighed about 1.8 tons. The gun fired 10.5 centimeters (4.1 in) fixed ammunition, which was 1.51 m (5.0 ft) long, weighed 24.2 kg (53 lb) and had a 4.08-kilogram (9.0 lb) propellant charge.
Campbell, John (2002). Naval Weapons of World War Two.London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-87021-459-4.; Gander, Terry; Chamberlain, Peter (1979). Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939–1945.
The 10.5 cm SK L/45 gun weighed 1,450 kilograms (3,200 lb), had an overall length of 472.5 cm (15 ft 6 in). It used a horizontal sliding-block breech design. Cradle is usually mounted on a conical pedestal mount, bolted to the submarine deck.
The 10 cm schwere Kanone 18 (10 cm sK 18) was a field gun used by Germany in World War II.The German army wanted a new 10.5 cm gun as well as 15 cm howitzer which were to share the same carriage.
The 10.5 cm K gepanzerte Selbstfahrlafette (10.5 cm gun on armoured self-propelled mount), also known as the Panzer Selbstfahrlafette IV Ausf.A (Pz.Sfl. IVa) (Self-propelled anti-tank gun IV model A) was a prototype self-propelled gun used by Nazi Germany during World War II.