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    The 7.62×51mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 7.62 NATO) is a rimless, straight walled, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It is a standard for small arms...
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    firearms that can fire the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. This ammunition was developed following World War II as part of the NATO small arms standardization...
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  • 7.62×51mm CETME round is a variant of the 7.62×51mm NATO rifle cartridge with a plastic-cored lead bullet and a reduced propellant charge. The 7.62×51mm...
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  • gun – 7×44mm) Rifles Madsen LAR (Denmark – battle rifle – 7.62×39mm, 7.62×51mm NATO) Madsen LAR 7.62×39mm Variant (Denmark – battle rifle – 7.62×39mm:...
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  • years before being replaced by the 7.62×51mm NATO and 5.56×45mm NATO, both of which remain in current U.S. and NATO service. The cartridge remains a very...
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    protection applications globally. It is similar, but not identical, to the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. During the 1940s, the .300 Savage became the basis for experiments...
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  • The IWI Tavor 7 is an Israeli bullpup battle rifle chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge designed and produced by Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) as part...
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    7×28mm NATO (STANAG 4509) 5.56×45mm NATO (STANAG 4172) 7.62×51mm NATO (STANAG 2310) 12.7×99mm NATO (STANAG 4383) 40 mm grenade Autocannons 20×102mm (STANAG...
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    .280 British (redirect from 7 mm NATO)
    variants, ultimately adopting the cartridge that was then designated the 7.62×51mm NATO. During World War II the standard British rifle and machine gun round...
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    CETME rifle (category 7.62×51mm NATO battle rifles)
    for the 7.62×51mm NATO round (although originally designed for the 7.92×41mm CETME cartridge and later for the reduced power Spanish 7.62×51mm cartridge)...
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    officially the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges from a disintegrating...
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  • .277 Fury (redirect from 6.8×51mm)
    Generation Squad Weapon Program (NGSW). It is dimensionally similar to the 7.62×51mm NATO service cartridge. In December 2019, the cartridge was announced for...
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    energies of the 7.62×54mmR are comparable with standard 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges. However, a rimmed case such as the one used in the 7.62×54mmR cartridge...
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  • 62×40mm Wilson Tactical. 7.62×45mm vz. 52, made solely for the Czechoslovakian vz. 52 rifle, was replaced by 7.62×39mm. 7.62×51mm NATO and its civilian variant...
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    SIG MCX Spear (category 7.62×51mm NATO semi-automatic rifles)
    MCX-SPEAR is primarily chambered in .277 SIG FURY but can be adapted to 7.62×51mm NATO and 6.5mm Creedmoor with a barrel change. In January 2019, the United...
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    in the early 1960s. In 1954, the larger 7.62×51mm NATO rifle cartridge was selected as the first standard NATO rifle cartridge. At the time of selection...
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  • cartridge until superseded by the 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges in the 1970s and 1980s. The 7.5×54mm French MAS has an uncommon 12.39 mm...
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    The RK 62 (from Finnish rynnäkkökivääri 62, 'assault rifle 62'), officially 7.62 RK 62 and commercially M62, is an assault rifle manufactured by Valmet...
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    introduced the .308 Modular Weapon System LM308MWS, which uses the 7.62×51mm NATO round. In February 2012, the British Transport Police began to use AR-pattern...
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  • Accuracy International Arctic Warfare (category 7.62×51mm NATO rifles)
    (see variants below). Most Arctic Warfare rifles are chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge, but Accuracy International also made variants of the sniper...
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  • FN EVOLYS (category 7.62×51mm NATO machine guns)
    machine gun designed by FN Herstal in 2021, chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO. The EVOLYS was designed to be lighter and more ergonomic than...
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  • The L42A1 is a bolt-action sniper rifle chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. Used in the past by the British Army, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force...
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    62×51mm NATO rounds. It was introduced in the mid-20th century. It is the primary link type for the United States and among NATO for the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge...
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    7.62 mm, M240, is the U.S. military designation for the FN MAG, a family of belt-fed, gas-operated medium machine guns that chamber the 7.62×51mm NATO...
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    rifles and machine guns, and instead favoured the much more powerful 7.62×51mm NATO round. A bullpup layout for a British service rifle was finally adopted...
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    L129A1 (category 7.62×51mm NATO semi-automatic rifles)
    The L129A1, also known as the L129A1 Sharpshooter Rifle, is a 7.62×51mm NATO designated marksman rifle manufactured by Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT)...
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  • FN FAL (category 7.62×51mm NATO battle rifles)
    adoption by many self-proclaimed free world countries. It is chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO, although originally designed for the intermediate .280 British. A license-built...
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    UKM-2000 (category 7.62×51mm NATO machine guns)
    UKM-2000 (Uniwersalny Karabin Maszynowy, "Universal Machine Gun") is a 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun designed and manufactured by Zakłady Mechaniczne...
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    Operations Command (USSOCOM) tested the performance of 7.62×51mm NATO (M118LR long-range 7.62×51mm NATO load), .260 Remington, and 6.5mm Creedmoor cartridges...
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    IMI Galil (category 7.62×51mm NATO battle rifles)
    family of Israeli-made automatic rifles chambered for the 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges. Originally designed by Yisrael Galili and Yakov Lior...
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