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The Heckler & Koch XM8 is a lightweight assault rifle system developed from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The rifle was designed by German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch (H&K), and shares design and engineering with their G36 rifle .
An early XM8 mockup after the break up; became part of OICW Increment 1. The Objective Individual Combat Weapon or OICW was the next-generation service rifle competition that was under development as part of the United States Army OICW program; the program was eventually discontinued without bringing the weapon out of the prototype phase.
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Spring-powered airsoft guns are generally not as powerful as gas-powered ones, but are more powerful than electric airsoft guns because stiffer springs can often be used without the worry of overloading any motor-gearbox, although some spring shotguns and bolt-action rifles can be very powerful with muzzle velocities up to 400–700 ft/s (120 ...
M16 barrel is 7.5" longer than the XM8 barrel. Longer barrel = higher muzzle velocity. Spartan198 12:52, 22 October 2010 (UTC) Actually, Automatic Rifle variant has 508 mm barrel, this is the same length with the M16 barrel. But M16 has 948 m/s muzzle velocity, XM8 has 918 m/s.
Ithaca Gun Company: 10 gauge: SA SG Tubular magazine United States: 1975 K12 Puma [15] Norinco: 12 gauge: SA SG Detachable box magazine China: M12 [16] [17] JTS Group 12 gauge: SA SG Detachable box magazine United States: MAUL (shotgun) Metal Storm: 12 gauge: SA SG Preloaded tube Australia: Mossberg 930: O.F. Mossberg & Sons: 12 gauge: SA SG ...
The FMC Close Combat Vehicle-Light ultimately won the AGS contest. Here a pre-production XM8 fires its 105 mm main gun. The Armored Gun System (AGS) was a U.S. Army competition in the 1990s to design a light tank to replace the M551 Sheridan and TOW-equipped HMMWVs. It was the ultimate incarnation of several research programs run in the 1970s ...
The Heckler & Koch HK CAWS (Close Assault Weapon System) is a prototype automatic shotgun—designed as a combat shotgun—co-produced by Heckler & Koch and Winchester/Olin during the 1980s. It was Heckler & Koch's entry into the U.S. military's Close Assault Weapon System program.