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A smaller version of the AR-10 and adopted by the United States military as the M16 rifle. Later developed by Colt into a popular semi-automatic Colt AR-15. AR-16: 7.62×51mm NATO: ArmaLite: Prototype battle rifle. ArmaLite AR-17: 12 gauge: Semiautomatic 12ga 2shot shotgun based on the earlier AR-9. AR-18: 5.56×45mm NATO
V/48 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery (formed 21 April 1916, disbanded 10 November 1917) X/48, Y/48 and Z/48 Medium Mortar Batteries, RFA (formed 15 March 1916; on 21 March 1918 Z was absorbed by X and Y) 48th (South Midland) Divisional Engineers [23] 474th (1/1st South Midland) Field Company (left 4 December 1914, rejoined 1 May 1915)
[48] 1940: the 207th CA Regiment (AA) of the NM National Guard, converted from the 111th Cavalry Regiment on 26 April 1940, was redesignated the 200th CA Regiment (AA) on 1 July 1940. [31] [48] [50] Mobilization in 1939-41 created more regiments. Almost all of the National Guard units above were mobilized during this period. [31]
The 6.8mm Remington Special Purpose Cartridge (6.8 SPC, 6.8 SPC II or 6.8×43mm) is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate rifle cartridge that was developed by Remington Arms in collaboration with members of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit and United States Special Operations Command [6] to possibly replace the 5.56 NATO cartridge in short barreled rifles (SBR) and carbines.
At least 50 missiles [48] North Korea [42] OTR-21 Tochka: Short-range tactical ballistic missile 50 [42] Soviet Union: In 2022, it was estimated that Russia still had 200 missiles in service, even though they were largely replaced by the Iskander. [49] 9K720 Iskander-M: Short-range tactical ballistic missile 162 [42] Russia
The U.S. Army Soldier Show is a musical ensemble of soldiers which tours military installations annually. [48] Its current form originated in 1983 from several existing shows, but Sgt. Israel Beilin directed the first version of the Army Soldier Show, "Yip Yip Yaphank" in 1918.
The Canadian company Colt Canada (formerly Diemaco) licensed production of a rifle (Colt Model 715) and carbine (Colt Model 725), but later went on to produce an entire line of AR-15/M16 pattern weapons developed independently. In May 2005, Colt's Manufacturing Company acquired Diemaco, and the name was changed to Colt Canada.
The 6.5mm Creedmoor designated as 6.5 Creedmoor by SAAMI, and as 6,5 Creedmoor by the C.I.P. [4] is a centerfire rifle cartridge introduced by Hornady in 2007. [6]It was developed by Hornady senior ballistics scientist Dave Emary in partnership with Dennis DeMille, the vice-president of product development at Creedmoor Sports, hence the name.