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The United States Army uses various equipment in the course of their work. Small arms Firearms Model Image Caliber Type Origin Details Pistols SIG Sauer M17 9×19mm NATO Pistol United States SIG Sauer P320 – US Army Standard Issue Sidearm. Winner of the Modular Handgun System competition. Replaced all M9 and M11 pistols in service. Glock 26 9×19mm NATO Pistol Austria Glock 26 – limited ...
M26-MASS Stand-alone configuration. Note that the "rear sight" is just the ring used to mount it around a rifle's barrel (as visible in the other pictures.) Caliber: 12 gauge; Operation: Manual Straight pull bolt-action. Capacity: 3 or 5 round detachable box magazine. Ammunition: 2.75 (70mm) and 3 in (76mm) lethal, non-lethal and breaching rounds.
Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
US Army soldiers with M1128 MGS variant Strykers using combined arms doctrine for a modern warfare operation during the War in Afghanistan, 2013 As originally projected the U.S. Army allocated nine mobile gun systems (3 per infantry company) to a battalion , [ 1 ] making for 27 mobile gun systems per " Stryker brigade" in 2013, but later the ...
The M240 machine gun, officially the Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240, is the U.S. military designation for the FN MAG, [6] a family of belt-fed, gas-operated medium machine guns that chamber the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. [1] The M240 has been used by the United States Armed Forces since the late 1970s.
The M163 VADS uses the M168 gun, a variant of the General Dynamics 20 mm (0.79 in) M61A1 rotary cannon, the standard cannon in most U.S. combat aircraft since the 1960s. The gun is mounted on a modified M113A1 vehicle (the M741 carrier). Designed to complement the M48 Chaparral missile system, it is limited to fair-weather operations. [3]
This is a list of United States Army fire control, and sighting material by supply catalog designation, or Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group "F".The United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalog used an alpha-numeric nomenclature system from about the mid-1920s to about 1958.
Heavy weapons and mounted weapons M61 Vulcan: Gatling gun - six-barrels: General Dynamics: 20×102mm: Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard M134: Gatling gun - six-barrels: General Electric; Dillon Aero; Garwood Industries; Profense; 7.62×51mm NATO: Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy M2 HMG: Heavy machine gun: General Dynamics ...