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...inly employed for targets at ranges of about 1,400 metres (1,530 yd) using rifles with larger ammunition while DMs are utilized for targets at ranges of up t ... infantryman and a [[sniper]] and as such so-called '''designated marksman rifles''' (DMRs) have been developed with this middle ground in mind.

... Vietnam War, Six Day War, Yom Kippur War, Iran–Iraq War, Yugoslav wars, Romanian Civil War, Iraq War, current regional conflicts. ... was one of the final developments in the long line of [[Mauser]] military rifles.

...bipod]]. Early light machine guns (especially those derived from automatic rifles, such as the [[M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle]]) were sometimes [[Magazine ...liarization with a RPK during Exercise Rescue Eagle 2000.jpg|thumb|right|A Romanian soldier aids a United States Marine in clearing an RPK during the weapons f

*Romanian [[M1940]] and [[Orita M1941]] ==Automatic and semi-automatic rifles==

*[[Beretta|Beretta Rifles]] *[[Browning Rifles]]

.... 86'' or simply ''md. 86'') is the standard [[assault rifle]] used by the Romanian Military Forces and manufactured in Cugir, Romania by firm RomArm S.A. loca ...oblem with early Soviet AK-74's with 45 degree gas blocks). This means the Romanian AK-74 has a double angle gas port, which makes it much harder to clean the

[[Image:Romanian AKM Soldier.JPEG|150px|thumb|left|A Romanian soldier with a PM md. 65 - December 1989]] ... own assault rifles chambered in 7.62mm, be they AK-47 pattern or not, the Romanian State Arsenal developed an AKM clone featuring a forward-pointing front han

}}The '''PSL''' (Romanian: ''Puşcă Semiautomată cu Lunetă'', "scoped semi-automatic rifle") is a ...ragunov Sniper Rifle]] though not one single part interchanges between the rifles. The PSL is chambered for the same venerable Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30 [[7

|variants= Chinese SKS; Yugoslavian PAP; Romanian SKS; Albanian SKS; East German SKS; (North) Vietnamese SKS; North Korean SK ...M1 Carbine]], the SKS is shorter and less powerful than the semi-automatic rifles which preceded it — most notably, the Soviet [[SVT-40|SVT]] series and th

...liarization with a RPK during Exercise Rescue Eagle 2000.jpg|thumb|right|A Romanian soldier aids a US Marine in clearing an [[RPK]], a squad automatic weapon v ...n and operate with standard military doctrines using nonmilitary repeating rifles. In war time, such lightly equipped civil militia can be easily upgraded b

Another problem is mounting a scope on a rifles, such as some [[lever action]] designs, where the shell is ejected out the ...omponents, though they had been used as early as the American Civil War on rifles, and even earlier for other jobs. The glass lenses are prone to breakage, a

...wind on the left and right. This is the operators view through the similar Romanian sight.]] ...o the PSO-1 4x24 sight used on the Russian [[SVD rifle|SVD]] rifle and the Romanian I.O.R. LPS 4x6° TIP2 4x24 sight used on the [[Puşca Semiautomată cu Lune

...riants of the [[AK-47]] because it is inclusive of semi-automatic civilian rifles which are partly or wholly derived from later military versions of that rif ...r stamped counterparts. Some authorities also suggest that milled receiver rifles enjoy slightly better inherent accuracy than stamped guns but others dismis

...arsaw Pact and its many African and Asian allies. The production of Soviet rifles was carried out at both the [[Tula Arms Plant|Tula Arsenal]] and [[Izhevsk [[Image:Romanian AKM Soldier.JPEG|thumb|left|A Romanian soldier with a PM md. 65.]]

... (upgraded to 5 rounds in 1916), the Italian M91 [[Carcano]], the various (Romanian, Dutch, Portuguese) turnbolt Mannlichers, the Austro-Hungarian straight-pul

... to make them more compact in form and fold better onto the sides of their rifles (see [[Mosin Nagant]] model of 1944). It is said that self-inflicted wounds ...k of a close-quarter combat, many soldiers revert to using bayonet-mounted rifles as clubs, this apparently being a more "natural" way of fighting (as descri