Archive for the 'Rifle' category
Beretta Rx4 5.56mm Storm Rifle
December 16, 2007 7:43 am
The latest rifle being promoted by Beretta for law enforcement use is the Rx4 Storm Rifle 5.56mm system. Available in a variety of configurations, the rifle looks very “modern” although the standard collapsible stock looks both awkward and ugly. With the stock extended, the rifle’s lines around the pistol grip look very much like a shotgun. The rifle uses both 10 round magazines that fit flush to the magazine well and the standard NATO 5.56mm magazines pictured here. It comes with a variety of options and attachment points - one of the ones receiving more favourable responses is the sportster-style standard rifle stock, shown below.
German “Storm Gun” ushers in new Assault Rifles
December 12, 2007 7:16 am
One of the most important firearms innovations of WWII was the StG-44 - the Storm Rifle that became the design for assault rifles for years to come. Chambered in the intermediary 7.92×33mm round it was designed to operate effectively as a carbine while also filling the support role of a light machine gun, while being light and small enough to also partially fill the role of the submachine gun in close combat environments.
Dlask Arms DAR-701 Canadian 5.56mm Carbine
December 4, 2007 7:27 am
You can’t leave Canada completely out in the cold. This semi-automatic carbine accepts standard 5.56mm NATO magazines (such as from the M16 series of rifles), and looks like a classic “tactical” carbine for today. It has a 6-position adjustable stock, flat-top upper with picatinny rail, and a free-floating aluminum picatinny hand guard. Made in British Colombia (Western Canada), the one in this photo includes a flat-top sight rail on top of the regular upper.
Heckler & Koch G11K2 Caseless Assault Rifle
November 28, 2007 7:29 am
It’s surprisingly hard to find a good photograph of the G11 prototypes out there. This rifle, developed in the 1970’s and 1980’s, caught the imagination of RPG designers in both computer and pen and paper role-playing, if not actual militaries. The rifle was entered in the 1979 NATO rifle trials but had to be withdrawn because of cook-offs in the chamber prior to firing once the chamber was hot. Later designs supposedly fixed this problem (common to most attempts at engineering a caseless-firing weapon), and the G11 was again entered in the US ACR trials, where no entered rifle succeeded at meeting the army specs.
Supposedly up to 1,000 of these rifles were manufactured for the West German military, but the rifle never went into full production.
NORINCO Type 86S Bullpup AK
November 20, 2007 7:48 am
I’ve got a bullpup obsession dating back to the old G-11 prototypes. This AK-derivative was produced by Chinese state factories for export in the late 80’s and early 90’s. It is a semi-automatic only rifle built on the base design of the then-obsolete Chinese Type 56 Assault Rifle (their Kalashnikov AKM clone), and exported internationally through the Chinese owned NORINCO company. The rifle shows it’s AK heritage not just in the 30 round 7.62mm x 39mm magazines, but in a majority of the internal parts and much of the stamped assembly.
Plinking in style
November 16, 2007 7:32 am
The Walther G22 is a pretty bullpup .22 LR ‘plinking’ rifle. Unlike most .22s, it draws the eye for being black and polymer like many of the new ‘tacticals’ on the market instead of wood stocked bolt-actions like the majority of 22s (such as mine). It’s a nice semi-automatic with a 10 round magazine and it also holds a second magazine in the stock behind the magazine well. It has an ambidextrous action with the ejection port switchable from left to right (so you don’t get hot brass flying into your face).
This model is the “A3 Set” which comes with both a scope on top and a laser sight mounted just below the front of the barrel.
Big, Accurate, and Cold.
November 13, 2007 8:25 am
The Accuracy International Arctic Warfare rifles are well known as highly accurate sniper rifles used by British military snipers, but also popular with civilians and police forces. Famed for accuracy and reliability, this version of the AWSM (Arctic Warfare Super Magnum) is chambered in the high-potency and high accuracy .338 Lapua Magnum.
Dragunov SVD
June 27, 2007 6:35 am
While surfing around looking for a nice pic of a Dragunov SVU (the bullpup version of the SVD) for another project of mine, I came across this nice photo of a classic SVD that I hadn’t seen before.
SIG SG 552 Commando
June 4, 2007 11:49 am
Based around the Kalashnikov action, the SG 552 is the most compact of the 550 assault rifles from SIG Arms (now Swiss Arms AG). The 550-series are known for accuracy (although much of that benefit is lost in the very short 552) and dependability (because of the action).
M16, meet AK-47
June 2, 2007 6:41 am
The Knight’s Armory SR-47 is at heart an AR-15 designed to accept magazines from captured AK-47s. Only 7 were ever produced, six of which saw service but were supposedly retired because the classic “dirty” AK-47 ammo didn’t feed well with the AR-15 direct impingement gas system.
Again, no matter how rare the gun was in reality, there seems to be no shortage of them in the world of airsoft.
