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United States. Based in. Boynton Beach, Florida. Website. www.swatmag.com. OCLC. 25541930. SWAT (special weapons & tactics for the prepared American) is a monthly magazine dedicated to firearms, law enforcement and other tactical-related activities in the United States with a special focus on SWAT police officers. [1]
The Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a flechette -firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved. The concepts continued to be tested under the Future Rifle Program and again in the 1980s under the Advanced Combat Rifle program, but neither program resulted in ...
FN SCAR. The FN SCAR (Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle) [3] is a family of gas-operated short-stroke gas piston [4] automatic rifles developed by Belgian manufacturer FN Herstal (FN) in 2004. [5] It is constructed with modularity for the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to satisfy the requirements of the SCAR ...
1,800 m (5,900 ft) [7] Feed system. 50-round detachable box magazine [8] Sights. Tritium -illuminated reflex sight, back-up iron sights [7] The FN P90 is a personal defense weapon chambered for the 5.7×28mm cartridge, also classified as a submachine gun, designed and manufactured by FN Herstal in Belgium. [9][10][11] Created in response to ...
Magazine (firearms) A staggered-column 9×19mm Browning Hi-Power pistol box magazine. The top image shows the magazine loaded and ready for use, while the lower image shows it unloaded and disassembled. Loading of small arms ammunition into a magazine. A magazine, often simply called a mag, is an ammunition storage and feeding device for a ...
In the United States, a SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team is a generic term for a police tactical unit.. SWAT units are generally trained, equipped, and deployed to resolve "high-risk situations", often those regular police units are not trained or equipped to handle, such as shootouts, standoffs, raids, hostage-takings, and terrorism.
The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP) was a United States military agency responsible for those aspects of nuclear weapons remaining under military control after the Manhattan Project was succeeded by the Atomic Energy Commission on 1 January 1947. These responsibilities included the maintenance, storage, surveillance, security and ...
The Kulsprutepistol m/45 (Kpist m/45), also known as the Carl Gustaf M/45 and the Swedish K SMG, is a 9×19mm Swedish submachine gun (SMG) designed by Gunnar Johansson, adopted in 1945 (hence the m/45 designation), and manufactured at the Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The m/45 was the standard submachine gun of the ...