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    280 British was an experimental rimless bottlenecked intermediate rifle cartridge. It was later designated 7 mm MK1Z, and has also been known as .280/30...
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  • 1948, the British Army urged FN to build additional prototypes, including one in bullpup configuration, chambered for their new .280 British (7×43mm) caliber...
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    The .280 Remington, also known as the 7mm-06 Remington and 7mm Express Remington, was introduced in 1957 for the Remington model 740, 760, 721, and 725...
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    German advances in weapons design during World War II. The round, the .280 British, was designed to replace the .303 round, which dated to the late 19th...
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  • The .280 Ross, also known as the .280 Nitro, .280 Rimless Nitro Express Ross (CIP) and .280 Rimless cartridge, is an approximately 7mm bullet diameter...
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    280 but only if the U.S. did as well. It was clear the U.S. was not going to use the .280 British. The British did start introducing the .280 British...
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  • 270 British (or .270 Enfield) is an experimental intermediate rifle cartridge that was developed by the British at the same time as the .280 British as...
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    277 FURY .277 Wolverine .28 Nosler .280 Ackley Improved .280 British .280 Flanged .280 Jeffery .280 Remington .280 Ross .284 Winchester .30 Carbine .30...
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    Originally called the He 180, the Heinkel He 280 was an early turbojet-powered fighter aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer...
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    Wensleydale (category Use British English from July 2020)
    York North Riding: Volume 1, ed. William Page (London, 1914), pp. 268-280". British History Online. Retrieved 30 August 2023. "Wensley". Open Domesday....
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    The British Army had considered bullpup designs with intermediate calibre rounds in the 1950s, and officially adopted one of these as .280 British in 1951...
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  • The .280 Jeffery, also known as the .280 Jeffery Rimless Nitro Express and the .33/280 Jeffery, is a rimless bottleneck centerfire rifle cartridge developed...
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    slightly superior ballistics to the .30-06. The British studies on various cartridges culminated in the .280 British cartridge, which shared logistic similarities...
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    M14 (although this was selective fire). In the 1950s, the British developed the .280 British, an intermediate cartridge, and a select-fire bullpup assault...
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    experimental British assault rifle. It was designed to fire the experimental .280 British round that was being considered to replace the venerable .303 British, re-arming...
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    Their studies led to a new purpose-designed intermediate round, the .280 British, along with new weapons to fire it. The round attracted significant interest...
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  • The TADEN was a British experimental light and medium machine gun firing the .280 in (7 mm) intermediate cartridge. Alongside the bullpup EM-2 rifle design...
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    List of clip-fed firearms Armalite AR-16 M14 rifle 7.62×51mm NATO .280 British EM-2 rifle KAL1 general purpose infantry rifle L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle...
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    (available in the US as well). British munitions enthusiasts are especially keen to point out the development of the .280 British round shortly after WW2, which...
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    include the Soviet 7.62×39mm used in the AK-47 and AKM series, the .280 British round developed for the EM-2, and the 5.56×45mm NATO for the AR-15/M16/M4...
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    The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindi rāj, 'kingdom', 'realm', 'state', or 'empire') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent;...
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    Bren light machine gun (category .303 British machine guns)
    machine guns (LMG) made by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles until 1992. While best known for its role as the British and Commonwealth forces'...
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  • The .280 Flanged Nitro Express, also known as the .280 Lancaster, is an obsolete rimmed bottleneck centerfire rifle cartridge developed by Charles Lancaster...
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    Vickers machine gun (category Use British English from May 2017)
    Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The gun was operated by a three-man...
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  • in 8mm Kurz and then in .280 British. The extractor groove of the .280 was changed to meet US specification and became the .280/30. After the war, the SLEM...
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    280 Broadway – also known as the A.T. Stewart Dry Goods Store, the Marble Palace, the Stewart Building, and the Sun Building – is a seven-story office...
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  • 4.85×49mm (category British firearm cartridges)
    7.62×51mm NATO round. Their original experiments focused on a .280 British (a British 1950 intermediate cartridge) round necked down to 6.3 mm. However...
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  • British) Bren Mk IV (UK – Light Machine Gun – .303 British) Taden Gun (UK – Light Machine Gun – .280 British: Prototype) Revolvers Enfield Revolver (UK – Double-Action...
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  • .303 British M1917 Enfield, 1917, .30-06 Springfield, the "American Enfield" EM-2 rifle, 1950 Experimental British Assault Rifle .280 British Enfield...
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    Royal Bermuda Regiment (category British Army)
    replace the SLR, however. During the 1950s, the British forces had been pressured into dropping the .280 British sub-calibre round and EM-2 rifle that had been...
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