A classic showdown between Axis and Allies.
Here s What You Need to Know: Only the M1 Garand proved to be successful
There is no denying that the United States military’s M1 Garand was truly the best of the main battle rifles used in the Second World War. Whereas the other powers largely relied on bolt action rifles that were essentially little improved versions of what had been carried in the trenches of World War I, the American soldier and marine had some semi-automatic firepower.
Yet the M1 Garand wasn’t the only semi-automatic weapon employed in the war and both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany employed semi-autos. However, they were no M1 Garand, and it is doubtful Gen. George S. Patton would have called those attempts “the greatest battle implement ever devised.”
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Why the U.S. Military Gave Up On the Bullpup-Style Rifle
Meet the Model 45A, a .30 caliber bullpup that was essentially a hybrid battle rifle/light machine gun.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Unlike modern bullpups, which are compact weapons, the Model45A was actually a long gun in every sense of the word as it featured a particularly long barrel.
As part of the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW), which will replace both the M4 Carbine and M249 SAW, one option is a rifle that features a “bullpup” configuration from General Dynamics. This layout places the magazine in the stock behind the pistol group which reduces the length of the weapon but could require some additional training for soldiers used to the legacy systems.
In the aftermath of the Korean War, the U.S. Army took stock of its small arms arsenal.
Here s What You Need to Remember: As U.S. forces streamed out of bases in the United States bound for Southeast Asia, few would have imagined the M16 rifle, which seemed to have such a rosy future, would encounter such controversy.
The M16 rifle is one of the most iconic weapons of the post-World War II era. American fighting men have carried the M16 in one form or another into combat for more than fifty years, from Vietnam to the present day. The story of the original M16, whose descendants the M16A4 and M4 carbine today fight in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State, goes all the way back to the 1950s and the institutional soul-searching that came after another war Korea.
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