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Article: Assault rifle update.(Small Calibre)
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- Armada International
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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During the Cold War the focus was on armoured warfare, but today the priority has shifted to infantry operations in urban terrain. The increased importance given to infantrymen has brought about a number of improvement programmes in order to make them more efficient and include them into the networked system through a number of future soldier programmes. While this development is mostly centred on command and control assets, the offensive system still remains the assault rifle.
On examining the various programmes it clearly appears that most base the lethality element on existing rifle models or on derivatives in which engineering is mostly conventional. Replacing ...