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Assault rifles. F88 Austeyr (locally produced Steyr AUG derivative, adopted 1988, still in use) (5.56 NATO calibre) M16A1 /M16S1 Used by the Australian Army until 1989 when the F88 Austeyr came into service. Australian forces involved in UN peacekeeping operations in Namibia, Western Sahara, and Cambodia used the M16A1 rifle well into the early ...
Siamese Mauser style rifle (Standard issue rifle) Machine gun. Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun; Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903; Naval artillery. BL 6-inch gun Mk V (Coast defence gun)
Bolt action sniper rifle: 7.62×51mm: An Australian variant of the Accuracy International Arctic Warfare, it is the standard-issue sniper rifle in the Australian Army and is chambered for 7.62×51mm. It replaced the Parker Hale Model 82 rifle in the late 1990s. Manufactured under licence in Australia by Thales Australia.
List of equipment of the Australian Army; References This page was last edited on 27 July 2023, at 10:24 (UTC). ...
The Australian Army was the largest service in the Australian military during World War I. The First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was the Army's main expeditionary force and was formed from 15 August 1914 with an initial strength of 20,000 men, following Britain 's declaration of war on Germany .
Soldiers from the 4th Division near Chateau Wood, Ypres, in 1917. In Australia, the outbreak of World War I was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. Even before Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the nation pledged its support alongside other states of the British Empire and almost immediately began preparations to send forces overseas to engage in the conflict.
The weaponry and equipment of the Australian Army had mostly been standardised on that used by the British Army prior to the outbreak of World War I. [85] During the war the equipment used changed as tactics evolved, and generally followed British developments. The standard issued rifle was the .303-inch Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mark III ...
This battalion undertook garrison duties in the Northern Territory during World War II, before being disbanded in August 1943 as being surplus to Army requirements without having served overseas. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] After the war, following the demobilisation of the wartime Army, Australia's part-time military was re-formed in 1948, [ 44 ] but the ...