Rifle cartridgeA rifle cartridge is a firearm cartridge primarily designed and intended for use in a rifle/carbine, or machine gun. Fully powered cartridge A full-powered cartridge is a rifle cartridge used interchangeably between service rifles, sniper rifles, and general purpose machine guns. It is a retronym for rifle cartridges used prior to and during World War II. They are primarily used today in general purpose machine guns, designated marksman rifles, and sniper rifles.
Kalashnikov ConcernJSC Kalashnikov Concern (Конце́рн Кала́шников), known until 2013 as the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant (Иже́вский машинострои́тельный Заво́д (ИЖМАШ)), is a Russian defense manufacturing concern and joint-stock company headquartered in the city of Izhevsk in the Republic of Udmurtia as well as the capital city of Moscow. The concern designs and produces a wide range of civilian and military weapons including assault rifles, sniper rifles, designated marksman rifles, machine guns, squad automatic weapons, hunting rifles, shotguns, guided artillery projectiles, and a wide range of other precision weapons including remote controlled weapon stations, unmanned vehicles and military robots.
Grenade à fusilvignette|alt=Photographie d'un soldat tenant entre ses mains un fusil armé d'une grenade.|droite|M1 Garand équipé d'une grenade à fusil d'exercice. Une grenade à fusil est une grenade spécialement conçue pour être tirée à partir d'un fusil, dans le but de l'envoyer à une distance plus élevée que n'en est capable un lanceur humain. Le premier système de grenade à fusil a été développé durant la Première Guerre mondiale.
VolkssturmgewehrThe Volkssturmgewehr ("People's Storm - Rifle") is the name of several rifle designs developed by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II (February 1945-May 1945). They share the common characteristic of being greatly simplified as an attempt to cope with severe lack of resources and industrial capacity in Germany during the final period of the war. The Volkspistole was a partner program, almost identical, but for pistols instead. The weapon's name can be translated directly either as "People's assault rifle" or "Volkssturm rifle.
