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Now the standard weapon for british soldiers across the globe, the sa8. The world s assault rifles gary paul johnston, thomas b. The ebook version contains nearly 2000 pages and is full of interesting assault rifle history and information you wont find elsewhere. Well anyway this book is good reference for us 2nd amendment patriots who love military hardware, rather it is fully automatic rifles or what most people get semi. The assault rifle is a class of weapon that emerged in the middle of the last century to meet the needs of combat soldiers on the modern battlefield.
In 1963 he published the classic reference the world s submachine guns, and in 1967 he coauthored the original volume of the world s assault rifles with dan musgrave. The armalite ar15 of 1959 was notably adopted as the us m16 rifle. Mr nelson previously published two volumes on submachine guns and a book on assault rifles many years ago, but this current edition was heavily updated and. At the moment, most every country fields either a standard production rifle or their own design, with most small countries buying off the shelf, so to speak while larger countries tend to build th. Ian mccollum is the founder, editor, and presenter of forgotten weapons, a decadeold. Top 20 nextgen combat rifles bushmaster acr dmr the dmr designated marksman rifle version of the bushmaster acr is set up for longrange shooting. An assault rifle is a rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge, a detachable magazine, and. Equipped with new weapons, and bearing lessons well learned from the french, the rifle brigade changed the face of british soldiering for ever. Fight is bad for commerce, evidently except the gunmaking business.
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He has previously published several articles, reports, and books on these topics. Assault rifles the assault rifle was born in the fighting of world war 2 with the germans leading the way postwar, many powers followed suit. The world s assault rifles and automatic carbines volume 2 of. With the 1200page hardcover version weighing 9 pounds and now selling for hundreds. The book begins with an introduction, followed by a one page forward where the authors give a brief history of the assault rifle and its characteristics, and discuss past and present trends. This book rounds out my two most used reference sources the other being iannamicos ak47. Though western nations were slow to accept the assault rifle concept, by the end of the 20th century they had become the standard weapon in most of the world s armies, replacing. Several varieties of infantry weapons developed during the cold war continue to take their places on todays battlefields.
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