The .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge is a purpose-designed round for long-range sniper shooting. It started its life as an experimental .338/416 round, ...
This round was developed during early 1930s on request from Swedish army, as a dedicated medium machine gun ammunition, to provide longer effective range ...
This round was developed during early 1930s on request from Italian army, as a dedicated medium machine gun ammunition, to provide longer effective range ...
This round was developed in Austria in late 1920s to improve performance of the obsolete 8x50R Steyr round. It was adopted by Austrian army in 1930 and by ...
The 8mm Lebel cartridge was the world’s first small-bore (as per late 19th century standards) military round that was loaded with smokeless powder. ...
This round was originally adopted by Austro-Hungarian empire in 1888, loaded with black powder and round-nose bullet. In 1890 it was converted to smokeless ...
The 7.92x57mm Mauser cartridge is one of the most sucessful European rifle rounds from the first half of the 20th century. It is commonly known as ...
This round was adopted by Japanese army in 1939 (2599 per Japanese calendar then in use) as an improved version of the earlier 7.7mm Type 92 round. The ...
This round was adopted by Japanese army in 1932 (2592 per Japanese calendar then in use) as a dedicated medium machine gun round, to improve machine guns ...
The .303 British cartridge (7.7 x 56R) was originally adopted by the British Army in 1889 as a black powder round. In 1891 the propellant was ...
This round was developed during 1950s by Winchester in an atempt to provide huntes with flat-shooting, long-range hunting ammunition with significant ...
The .30-06 US cartridge (or .306) was introduced in 1906 as an evolution of the US Army’s short-lived use of the .30-03 cartridge, which ...
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