Which assault rifles do countries around the world use in their militaries?
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This should help.\n\nhttp://world.guns.ru/assault/as00-e.htm\n\nAnd to lonely_dove04, it's not just officers that carry the M9. I'm a tanker, and for us, the M9 is the standard personal weapon for officers and enlisted soldiers.
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Afganistan, Australia, Turkey, India, I think.\n\nhttp://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/publication.cfm?program=ICP&ctype=article&item_id=1340
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Australia excels at Light infantry operations, particuarly in jungle environments.\n\nThis grew out of our experiences in WW2, and can be displayed by our records in the Indonesian Confrontation and Vietnam.
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America...the weapons they are using are american as well.
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Actually, spartanerik, the XM8 program was cancelled. The M4A1 is a good rifle, but I like the M16A4 better. It has a little more power and accuracy than the carbine, and makes for a pretty good sniper's weapon, in a pinch. (With optics, of course)
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the answer is in the army files of every nation that ever had a war.\nmachine guns spit out bullets very fast. Or I suspect the old Tommy gun in the 20s' was the one. Gangsters perhaps in Chicago.\n\ngl
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NO COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRUCTION!!!!\nBut if one country has them, there rest should be allowed to have them!
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Over all in combat the AK, it can take a hell of a lot of abuse. Trust me here, I have used both.  The M-16 A2 does well but can not handle the same environment.
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Everyone manufactures weapons.  Everyone sells weapons.  Gun-running is a HUGE market in developing nations.  Besides, loving peace in your country and causing war in another doesn't really contradict (irony at it's finest).
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Lee-Enfield P17. originally the standard issue for the british, but when the US entered the war, there was a shortage of Springfield rifles, the standard American military rifle, so our troops were issued P17s. They ended up as the most common issue.\n\nadded note: the standard issue german rifle was a Gewehr 98 Rifle, originally manufactured in1898. Source for this was a google search\n\nBoth of these are bolt-action rifles
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The AK47 is the most widely used and issued weapon of nations armed forces.  This is due to the fact that they are disposable.  They handle mud, water, cold, heat, and grime and continue to shoot.  The ammo is standard and cheap.  You can pack a ton of it.  You can stick other tolerable size rounds in the magazine and shoot it in a pinch. They are fun to shoot too.   Drawback is that it has a limited effective range of about 300 yrds.  \nThe AR15 is very effective flat shooting weapon.  It is also very heavy.  Ammo is specific to this weapon.  Can't grab an AK round and shove it in an rocknroll.  It is also a very expensive weapon to obtain.  There are two styles of body, milled, and stamped.  The milled are better to own, as they don't warp after multiple rounds.  They keep their tolerance better.  They are a bit heavier, but overall they will last much longer after lots of use.\n\nAnther option would be be obtain the old SKS.  It shoots the same round as the AK47, but has a better effective range than the AK.  It too has most of the same qualities of the AK but is even more inexpensive to obtain.\n\nComes down to whether you want to have long range accuracy or mass amounts of firepower quickly distributed at shorter distances.  For the money AK is a fun cheap machine, or an SKS.  Pick one up and play with it a while.
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The action is a commercial 98 Mauser built in Czechoslovakia and imported for years by Interarms as their Mark X model. They're great rifles.
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im sure there are plenty of countries using it.... possibly the british army ..... most military branches dont give out information on what types of training exercises they have that could possibly get into the wrong hands
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Like Madaxe said all AK's are pretty good, and roughly the same performance wise. In my experience the Romanian W.A.S.R 10 is a little cheaper and more available than the Chinese Mak 90's.
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There is a National Rifle Association but I am not aware of an International
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It may not be used by the military but it was developed by the US and even according to your own Fox News:\n\n"Only Russia and the United States have officially declared that they have stockpiles of sarin. The United States began developing sarin as part of its chemical weapons program in the 1950s; it now has more than 5,000 tons of the substance. Russia has about 11,700 tons."
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Sniper rifles:\nRegular 'sniper' rifles. Including scoped variants of regular weapons, dedicated designs, dedicated marksman variants, etc..\n\nAccuracy International Arctic Warfare Magnum \nAccuracy International Arctic Warfare Police \nAI AE \nAI Arctic Warfare / L96 \nAlex \nAMP TS DSR-1 \nArmalite AR10 \nBarrett M98 \nBeretta M501 \nBlaser 93 Tactical \nCheyTac Intervention \nCZ 700 \nEDM Arms Windrunner \nDakota Longbow T-76 \nDragunov SVD \nEnfield L42A1 & Enforcer \nEnfield No. 1 \nErma SR-100 \nFN 30-11 \nFN Police Rifle \nFN SPR \nFR F2 \nGalil Tzalafim (Galil sniper) \nHK MSG-90 \nHK PSG1 \nIMI SR-99 \nKAC SR-25&#92;Stoner SR-25 \nKnight SR-25 (see SR-25) \nMauser SP66 \nMauser 86SR \nM14 \nM16A2E3 (designated marksman accurized assault rifle) \nM21 \nM24 SWS \nM40 USMC sniper rifle \nM93 Black Arrow \nParker-Hale M82 & C3A1 \nPGM Ultima Ratio \nPGM Mini-Hecate .338 \nRAI / RAP model 300 \nRemington 700 \nRemington 700 PSS \nSako TRG \nSavage 10FP & 110FP \nSIG SG550 Sniper \nSig Sauer SR66 \nSig Sauer SR86 \nSig-Sauer SSG 2000 \nSig-Sauer SSG 3000 \nSIG SHR 970 \nSIG STR \nSSG-82 \nSteyr Scout Tactical \nSteyr SSG \nSteyr SSG 69 \nSVU \nSV-98 \nSV-99 \nTactical Ops Tango 51 \nTCI SR-89 (bull-pup sniper rifle) \nType 88 \nVapensmia NM149S \nVSK-94 \nVSS Vintorez \nWalther WA2000 \nZastava M76 \n[edit]\nLarge caliber:\n(.50 caliber and larger. Mainly for anti-matériel, counter-sniper, etc. work)\n\nAI Arctic Warfare .50 \nArmalite AR-50 \nBarrett M82A1 \nBarrett M82 \nBarrett M90 \nBarrett M95 \nBarrett M99 \nBlack Arrow M93 \nKSVK 12.7 \nM500 \nM600 \nM650 \nMechem NTW-20 \nOSV-96 \nPGM UR Hecate II \nRT-20 \nSteyr IWS 2000 \nSteyr .50 HS \nSVN-98 \nTor (WKW Wilk) \nTruvelo .50 \nZastava M93 \nI hope this helps