The Heckler & Koch XM8 is a lightweight assault rifle system developed from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The rifle was designed by German small arms...
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kinetic energy component was also developed separately as the XM8, though both the OICW and XM8 are now indefinitely suspended. Heckler & Koch developed an...
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M8 armored gun system (redirect from XM8 Armored Gun System)
to program cost growth. Six prototypes were built under the designation XM8. The first of these was rolled out at the United Defense (created by a merger...
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(25×40mm HEAB Ammunition) XM8 rifle (5.56 kinetic energy component) M320 (40 mm grenade launcher originally developed for the XM8) XM25 (Uses low velocity...
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& Koch ACR WSG2000 Heckler & Koch was also a contractor for the XM29 and XM8 projects (both on hold as of 2005), as well as the related XM25. Heckler...
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OICW Increment Three is a program to re-integrate the two components. The XM8 was developed in an attempt to meet Increment One requirements. Instead a...
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developing the Bundeswehr's Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle, the U.S. Army's XM8 rifle project (cancelled in 2005) and the British Armed Forces SA80 A2 upgrade...
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M551 Sheridan replacement process (section XM8)
The FMC Close Combat Vehicle-Light ultimately won the AGS contest. Here a pre-production XM8 fires its 105 mm main gun....
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U.S. helicopter armament subsystems (redirect from XM8 armament subsystem)
with the XM8 system. As with the XM8, this system can also be mounted on the OH-58 Kiowa. HGS-55 Using a mount similar to that used on the XM8 and M27...
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8mm cartridge) (United States Marine Corps) - not selected for IAR program XM8 rifle - not adopted (5.56×45mm NATO) XM29 (5.56×45mm NATO and 20 mm airburst...
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(2013) War in Iraq (2013–2017) Beretta ARX160 FX-05 Xiuhcoatl Heckler & Koch XM8, prototype assault rifle based on the HK G36. "Modern Firearms - HK G36"...
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roles were separated into specific weapons, with the rifle pursued as the XM8, and the OICW Increment 2 standalone airburst component as the XM25. As a...
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Heckler & Koch HK33 Heckler & Koch HK416 Heckler & Koch HK 93 Heckler & Koch XM8 M4 carbine M16 rifle PVAR rifle Ruger Mini-14 SA80 SIG SG550 / 551 / 552...
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produced in tandem with the XM8 Assault Rifle, with the intention of becoming a standard attachment. However, even as the XM8 project was cancelled, Insight...
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XM51 UH-1H Huey on the XM94 OH-6A Cayuse on the XM8 OH-58 Kiowa light observation helicopters on the XM8 The M129 was effectively a redesign of the older...
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SF. India : Used by Para (Special Forces). Malaysia: Used by PASKAL on XM8 and Heckler & Koch G36E rifles. Montenegro Norway: Used on Heckler & Koch...
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merger of FMC and BMY) built six prototypes of the CCVL under the designation XM8, later type-classified as the M8. The Army canceled the AGS in 1996 due to...
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0/44 Maewo (Vanuatu), 1/16 = 6.3% Micronesia, 0/64 Polynesia). C-RPS4Y711(xM8, M217) Y-DNA has been found in 17% (6/35) of a sample of Yao from Bama, Guangxi...
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grenade launcher, but was canceled in 2004 as it was too heavy, and the XM8, which was canceled in 2005 as it did not offer significant enough improvements...
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Army's Enhanced Grenade Launcher requirement, evaluated for use with the XM8 and FN SCAR rifles. As is commonly mistaken, the "A" is not an addition to...
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magazine failures, the FN SCAR, XM8 and HK416 performed statistically similarly. The FN SCAR ranked second to the XM8 with 127 stoppages, but with fewer...
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mm low velocity smart cannon/grenade launcher for an individual soldier. XM8 a 5.56 mm weapon system Barrett XM109 a rifle designed to fire the same 25...
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XH1 — December 2, 1999 Oizumi T. Kobayashi EOS 9.7 km MPC · JPL 20709 1999 XM8 — December 2, 1999 Kvistaberg UDAS · 4.1 km MPC · JPL 20710 1999 XP10 —...
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M4. Unlike possible replacements for the M16/M4 such as the now canceled XM8, the REC7 is not an entirely new rifle, instead it is made up of an upper...
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maint: numeric names: authors list (link) "File:Navy PASKAL rifleman with HK XM8 Compact Carbine 9 inches on standby 57th NDP.JPG". 31 August 2014 – via Wikimedia...
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intermingled. After a series of false starts, in June 1992 the Army selected FMC's XM8 Armored Gun System (AGS) to go into low-rate initial production. The AGS...
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have adopted the bolt carrier group and operating system such as the H&K XM8 & G36, Bushmaster/Remington ACR, FN SCAR 16/17, South Korea Daewoo K1/k2...
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latter weapon, the M320 Grenade Launcher Module, was salvaged from the failed XM8 program and adopted in 2008 as the US military's replacement for the M203...
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– 7.62×51mm NATO) HK XM8 (Germany – assault rifle – 5.56×45mm NATO) HK XM8 Carbine (Germany – carbine – 5.56×45mm NATO) HK XM8 Compact (Germany – personal...
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Germany 1944 Weibel M/1932 Dansk Industri Syndikat 7×44mm Denmark 1932 XM8 rifle Heckler & Koch 5.56×45mm NATO Germany United States 2003–present[citation...
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