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The Mk15 is a special application sniper rifle used by the Navy SEALs primarily as an anti-material weapon. The military version of the civilian McMillan TAC-50, the Mk15 fires .50 caliber bullets ...
The McMillan TAC-50 is a manually operated, rotary bolt-action rifle. The large bolt has dual front locking lugs, and its body has spiral flutes to reduce weight. The heavy match-grade barrel, made by Lilja barrels, is also fluted to dissipate heat quickly and reduce overall weight, and fitted with an effective muzzle brake to reduce recoil.
.22 Long Rifle: Bolt-action Norway: 1967 McMillan Tac-50: McMillan Brothers Rifle Company .50 BMG: Bolt-action United States: 1980s AMR-2: China South Industries Group: 12.7×108mm: Bolt-action China: 2000 approx. JNG-90: MKEK: 7.62×51mm NATO: Bolt-action Turkey: 2004 Alejandro sniper rifle: Union de Industrias Militares: 7.62×54mmR: Bolt ...
The McMillan Tac-50 is one of McMillan Firearms's best-known products. McMillan Firearms is an American arms manufacturer that makes the McMillan Tac-50, its .50 BMG long-range anti-materiel and sniper rifle. It also produces the McMillan Tac-338, McMillan Tac-300 and McMillan Tac-308 sniper rifles, the ALIAS Rifle System and various hunting ...
Raytheon's (RTX) business unit, Missiles & Defense, clinches a $93.6 million modification contract to upgrade the MK15 Close-In Weapon System.
Harris Gunworks, a Phoenix, Arizona based U.S. firearms manufacturer, began operations as G. McMillan & Co. after Gale McMillan spun off the rifle building portion of his McMillan Rifle Stock business. McMillan sold this to a group of investors headed by Wes Harris. With Harris as President, the company received its first of many military ...
Mark 15 Phalanx CIWS; automated anti-missile gatling gun, entered US Navy service in 1980 Mark 15, a variant of the 8-inch/55-caliber gun MK 15, the US military designation for the McMillan TAC-50
In the 1980s, Ronnie Barrett of Tennessee invented the Barrett Model 82, the first sniper rifle to use a .50-caliber heavy machine gun round, as opposed to a military small arms or hunting round ...