Cartridge: 5.56mm x 45
Weight: 4.5kg
Length: 757mm
Cycle rate of fire: 900-1000 rounds per minute
Magazine: 25-round box
Effective range: 400m
The FA MAS Rifle is a bullpup design like the SA80, the French FA MAS can be set to eject spent cases to eather side, although this is a fiddly job. Its phenomenal rate of fire will empty a 25-round magazine in 1 1/2 seconds, and it takes practice to control.
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Cartridge: 7.62 mm x 51 NATO
Weight: 5.1kg
Length: 1025mm
Cycle rate of fire: 500-600 rounds per minute
Magazine: 20-round box
Effective range: 600m
The Heckler & Koch (H&K) G3 is one of the few rifles firing a full-sized cartridge and working on delayed blowback using the roller-delayed system perfected by H&K, and used in most of their weapons.
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Cartridge: 7.62mm NATO
Weight: 4.5kg
Length: 1016mm
Cycle rate of fire: 500 rounds per minute
Magaxine: 20-round box
Effective range: 600m
Many of the design team which worked on the WWII German assault rifle moved to Spain after the war and continued to develop their work. The result was the CETME assault rifle, a cheap and cheerful' weapon which is easy to manufactureand simple to to shoot. The West Germans acquired some 400 CETMEs in 1956 and the design was developed further by H&K to produce the G3. The early CETMEs fired a lighter cartridge than the common 7.62mm NATO, but this was abandoned in 1964.
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Cartridge: 7.62mm x 39
Weight: 3.85kg (Empty)
Length: 1021mm
Cycle rate of fire: single shot
Magazine: 10-round box
Effective range: 400m
The Simonov SKS was is the only self-loading rifle in the Warsaw Pact armies.
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Cartridge: 7.62 x 54R
Weight: 4.3kg
Length: 1225mm
Muzzle velocity: 830 Meters/Second
Magazine: 10-round box
The Dragunov should only bo compared with other semi-automatic sniping rifles, and there are many of them. Many armies remain wedded to bolt-action weapons, but their perceptions are largely based on the ideas of 30 years ago. Modern semi-autos are every bit as accurate as bolt actions and the Dragunov, while at the cheaper end of the spectrum, is a respectably accurate rifle.
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Cartridge: 7.62 x 51
Weight: 17.8 lbs
Length: 47.5 in.
Barrel length: 25.6 in.
Magazine capacity: 5 or 20 rounds
Replacement cost: $8859.00
The PSG-1 is based on the standard H&K roller-locked delayed blowback bolt system used in the G3 series of rifles. The barrel is heavier than standard, the butt is adjustable as is the trigger, and the weapon is carfully balanced. It uses a 6x sight, although you can fit any NATO standard scope. It fires normal 7.62 mm x 51 NATO, but the wise sniper will choose match-grade ammunition.
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Barrett M-82. Semi-automatic .50 BMG (Browning Machine Gun) with 10 round box Magazine.
Used in by Marines in Desert Storm to engage light vehicles and tank crewmen at ranges over one mile.
Very nasty with API rounds (Armor Piercing Incendiary). See this
weapon in the movies: "Navy Seals"-(used by 'God') and Robocop.
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Description: HK33 with standard short barrel.
Country of Origin: Germany
Manufacturer: Heckler & Koch
Caliber: .223 Remington/5.56mm NATO
Feed: 25 round box-type magazine
Modes of Fire: semi-automatic and continous fire
Cyclic Rate: 700 rounds per minute
Mechanism: delayed recoil roller block locking system with fluted chamber
Length: 26.75 in. (retracted stock)
Weight: 8.75 lbs.
Barrel Length: 12.67 in.
Stock: retractable
