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|wars= Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Six-Day War, Portuguese Colonial War, the South African Border War, Northern Ireland Troubles, Rhod ...Russian [[SKS]] [[carbine]] and French [[MAS-49]] series of semi-automatic rifles. The gas system is fitted with a gas regulator behind the front sight base,

...cities and, typically, higher [[trajectories]]. Hand-held firearms, like [[rifles]], [[carbines]], [[pistols]] and other small firearms are rarely called "gu ...secondary method of attack used in close combat. For example, arms such as rifles, muskets, and occasionally [[submachine gun]]s can have [[bayonet]]s affixe

...ht|A modern [[black powder substitute]] for [[muzzleloader|muzzleloading]] rifles in FFG size]]'''Gunpowder''' (also called '''black powder''') is a pyrotech ...sed in large bore rifles and small cannon though FFg (medium and smallbore rifles), FFFg (pistols), and FFFFg (smallbore, short pistols and priming [[flintlo

|wars= Portuguese Colonial War, Rhodesian Bush War, Carnation Revolution, Cambodian Civil War ...y (Bundeswehr) now displayed interest and soon purchased a number of CETME rifles (7.62x51mm NATO chambering) for further testing. The CETME, known as the ''

...iented [[Heckler & Koch HK33|HK33]] and [[Heckler & Koch G41|G41]] assault rifles. However, the G11 program came to an abrupt end when the Bundeswehr rejecte ...ion ''Gewehr G36''. The order also involved an option for a further 17,000 rifles. Deliveries were first made to the Bundeswehr's NATO Quick Reaction Force d

... was one of the final developments in the long line of [[Mauser]] military rifles.

[[File:Portuguese_Kropatschek.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An example of a Portuguese Kropatschek]] ....br/armas_brasil/SecXIX/declinio/ArmasFogo/kropatschek.htm Kropatschek (in Portuguese)]

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...s a hand grip when firing the M203. A separate sighting system is added to rifles fitted with the M203, as the rifle's standard sights are not matched to the ...onents, usually including the launcher, adaptors for attachment to assault rifles, and leaf sights (which can be used with the rifle's front sight post). M2

...einmetall]]. ''Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH'' was split off and continues making rifles, while the Rheinmetal subsidiary, called ''Mauser-Werke Oberndorf Waffensys Note that the model names of the following Mauser rifles are split between company designations and German military designations. Fo

In [[Japan]], muskets were introduced in 1543 by Portuguese merchantmen and by the 1560s were being mass-produced locally. Japan then w ...American Civil War (1860s) most infantry were equipped with muzzle-loading rifles. These were far more accurate than smoothbore muskets and had a far longer

|wars= Angola, Mozambique, Sudan, Dominican Republic, Portuguese Timor ...iginal AR-10 was built in relatively small numbers, with fewer than 10,000 rifles assembled.

...ounds in 1916), the Italian M91 [[Carcano]], the various (Romanian, Dutch, Portuguese) turnbolt Mannlichers, the Austro-Hungarian straight-pull [[Steyr-Mannliche

...ing company. Products include the [[M16 rifle|M16]] and [[M4 carbine|M4]] rifles. ArmaLite has changed hands many times as shown in the history below. ...16 in a rifle capable of competing for the many expected contracts for new rifles.