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...possibly the classic post-war [[battle rifle]]. Formally introduced by its designers Dieudonne Saive and Ernest Vervier in 1951, and produced two years later, i ...Most military forces adopting the FAL eventually eliminated full-automatic firearms training in the light-barrel FAL.

...|Belt-fed]] weapons or rifles with very limited capacity fixed [[Magazine (firearms)|magazine]]s are also generally not considered assault rifles. This list i | colspan="5"| In the 1990s, Izhmash designers developed the unified complex of Kalashnikov assault rifles chambered for d

...940. This led to a competition in 1941 by major U.S. firearm companies and designers. [[Winchester Repeating Arms Company|Winchester]] at first did not submit a ...ice during the 1960s, when the M1 carbine would be replaced by the 5.56 mm firearms — the M16 and its carbine variants, such as the [[Colt Commando|XM177/CAR

...s hard to draw, the term submachine gun usually refers to larger automatic firearms. Typically, a submachine gun's operating mechanism is scaled down from that ... each pull of the trigger for a cyclic rate of 1100 rounds per minute. The designers limited it to fixed three-round bursts to allow it to be more easily contro

|wars= World War II, Korean War, Mau Mau Uprising, Suez Crisis, 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Sino-Indian War, Vietnam War, Indo-Pakistan Wars, Border Campaign (IRA STEN is an acronym, cited as derived from the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald '''S'''hepherd and Harold '''T'''urpin, and '''EN''' for [[

|nationality = German, Israeli ...ern Palestine during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the War of Israeli Independence, and was sent to an officer training course after the state of