• The Advanced Combat Rifle (ACR) was a United States Army program, started in 1986, to find a replacement for the M16 assault rifle. Under the stress of...
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    Steyr ACR was a prototype flechette-firing assault rifle built for the US Army's Advanced Combat Rifle program of 1989/90. Although the Steyr design proved...
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    entire weapons program. It was started in the aftermath of the Advanced Combat Rifle (or ACR) during the 1980s. Like the ACR program, it has largely...
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    well. In particular, versions of the G11 were included in the U.S. Advanced Combat Rifle program. In 1990, H&K finished the development of the G11, intended...
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  • Project Abakan was a Soviet/Russian advanced assault rifle program in rival to the US Advanced Combat Rifle that took place between 1980 and 1994. The...
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  • under the Future Rifle Program and again in the 1980s under the Advanced Combat Rifle program, but neither program resulted in a system useful enough...
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    the Objective Individual Combat Weapon program, the Special Purpose Individual Weapon program, and the Advanced Combat Rifle program (not to be confused...
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    The Adaptive Combat Rifle (ACR) (known initially as the Masada) is a modular assault rifle designed by Magpul Industries of Austin, Texas. In late January...
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  • AAI ACR was a prototype flechette-firing assault rifle built for the US Army's Advanced Combat Rifle program of 1989/90. Although the AAI design proved...
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    The 6mm Advanced Rifle Cartridge (6×38mm), or 6mm ARC for short, is a 6 mm (.243) caliber intermediate rifle cartridge introduced by Hornady in 2020, as...
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    The Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG) is a series of prismatic telescopic sights manufactured by Trijicon. The ACOG was originally designed to be...
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    M4 carbine (redirect from M4 rifle)
    replace the M16 rifle in US Army (starting 2010) and US Marine Corps (starting 2016) combat units as the primary infantry weapon and service rifle. The M4 has...
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    It has a free-floating barrel for greater accuracy. ACR Type: Advanced Combat Rifle Project Handguard S-1: The selector is Safe (S) – Semi-Automatic...
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    The Squad Advanced Marksman Rifle (SAM-R) is a semi-automatic designated marksman rifle developed and used by the United States Marine Corps. It gave...
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  • The Advanced Individual Combat Weapon (AICW) was an Australian prototype combination assault rifle and grenade launcher developed as a technology demonstrator...
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  • Individual Combat Weapon in concept, design, and operation, consisting of two separate weapons combined into a single unit: a lower assault rifle chambered...
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  • ACR (redirect from ACR (rifle))
    Combat Rifle Advanced Combat Rifle, a US Army program Armored cavalry regiment of the US army or national guard Steyr ACR, an Austrian assault rifle A...
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    also shown up in small arms, particularly the now abandoned U.S. Advanced Combat Rifle (ACR) program. The ACR "rifles" used smoothbore barrels to fire...
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    The Steyr-Mannlicher ACR rifle was a prototype flechette-firing assault rifle built for the US Army's Advanced Combat Rifle program of 1989–90.[citation...
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    The Colt ACR was Colt's entry in the U.S. DoD Advanced Combat Rifle program, which concluded with the result that none of the entrants achieved enough...
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    Needlegun (redirect from Flechette rifle)
    Future Rifle Program and again in the 1980s and 1990s under the Advanced Combat Rifle program, but neither program resulted in a system useful enough...
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    range are the American 5.56 mm M16 and the Russian 5.45×39mm AK-74. Advanced Combat Rifle/Project Abakan Antique firearms British military rifles Gun safety...
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  • the M16A2. The Advanced Combat Rifle was conceived, and it eventually became the SAR 21. The SAR 21 is the first production assault rifle of its class to...
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    well as field testing, including testing as part of the American Advanced Combat Rifle program. While it was scheduled to be adopted by the West German...
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    The M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR) is a 5.56mm, select-fire assault rifle / squad automatic weapon developed from the HK416 by Heckler & Koch. It is...
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    contracts with mixed results. For example, Colt had an entry in the Advanced Combat Rifle (ACR) program of the 1980s, but along with other contestants failed...
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    The FN SCAR (SOF (Special Operations Forces) Combat Assault Rifle) is a family of gas-operated short-stroke gas piston automatic rifles developed by Belgian...
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    The M16 rifle (officially designated Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16) is a family of assault rifles adapted from the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle for the United States...
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    Marksmanship Table, the Basic Combat Rifle Marksmanship Table, the Intermediate Combat Rifle Marksmanship Table, and the Advanced Combat Rifle Marksmanship Table...
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  • Israel Military Industries. The first combat use of the rifle was during the Kargil War in 1999. The INSAS rifle saw limited use in the Indian Army's counter-insurgency...
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