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Lee–Metford; Lee–Enfield MkIII; Lee–Enfield No. 4; Jungle carbine; M1 and M1A1 carbine; Type 38 rifle; Type 99 rifle; Type 44 carbine; Gewehr 1888 : supplied by Soviet Union [2] Gewehr 98: supplied by Soviet Union [2] Mosin–Nagant: supplied by Soviet Union [2] M95 Mannlicher carbines
The Charlton automatic rifle was a fully automatic conversion of the Lee–Enfield rifle, designed by New Zealander Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in severely short supply at the time.
An Afghan mujahid carries a Lee–Enfield in August 1985 A Rwandan soldier trains with a Lee-Enfield, 2011 Canadian Rangers, photographed in Nunavut, June 2011 The Lee–Enfield family of rifles is the second oldest bolt-action rifle design still in official service, after the Mosin–Nagant . [ 13 ]
The Labour government of Walter Nash approved the purchase of the L1A1 as a replacement for the No. 4 Mk 1 Lee–Enfield bolt-action rifle in 1959. [30] An order for 15,000 L1A1 rifles was placed with the Lithgow Small Arms Factory in Australia which had been granted a license to produce the L1A1.
Royal Ordnance plc was formed on 2 January 1985 as a public corporation, owning the majority of what until then were the remaining United Kingdom government-owned Royal Ordnance Factories (abbreviated ROFs) which manufactured explosives, ammunition, small arms including the Lee–Enfield rifle, guns and military vehicles such as tanks. It owned ...
Lee–Enfield rifles - using the Lee bolt action. There were 13 variants from 1895 to 1957. Pattern 1913 Enfield.276 Enfield experimental rifle, 1913; Pattern 1914 Enfield Rifle: intended as a Lee–Enfield replacement, mainly used by snipers in World War I. Bren (Brno + Enfield), .303 Light machine gun from 1935 onwards.
Wristguard markings on a 1918-dated Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk III* rifle manufactured by the London Small Arms Co. Ltd.. The London Small Arms Company Ltd (LSA Co) was a British Arms Manufacturer from 1866 to 1935.
The IOF .315 Sporting Rifle is a commercial version of the Lee-Enfield manufactured by Indian Ordnance Factories for the domestic arms market in India. It is chambered for the .315 Sporting Rifle cartridge, which is the Austro-Hungarian 8mmx50R Mannlicher cartridge loaded with a soft-point hunting bullet rather than the full metal jacket ...