This is one of the earliest smokeless cartridges, developed for Mauser-type magazine rifles during late 19th century. It was originally adopted by Belgian ...
The 7.62x54mmR cartridge is one of the oldest service cartridges still in military use in the world. Originally adopted by the Russian army in 1891 ...
The 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester) round started its life in the early 1950’s as the .30 T65, an experimental cartridge coming out of the US ...
The 7.5mm GP11 round was adopted by Swiss army in 1911 and is still in limited service with Swiss armed forces, in few remaining automatic rifles and some ...
French army set to develop a new, modern rifle- and machine gun round to replace obsolete 8mm Lebel ammunition in early 1920s, and in 1924 it adopted the ...
This round was developed in Italy shortly before the WW2 in an attempt to improve lethality and extend service life of the current, existing infantry ...
This round was developed in Germany for new Mauser rifle in 1892. It was adopted by Spanish army in 1893 along with Mauser bolt-action military rifle, and ...
This cartridge was first adopted by Norway but became most famous after its adoption in Sweden for military Mauser rifle in 1894. It was a standard rifle- ...
This cartridge was designed in Italy in 1890, and was since used in a number of bolt-action rifles and machine guns of Italian manufacture. No new weapons ...
The 6.5x50SR Arisaka cartridge was first issued in 1897 along with the Arisaka Type 30 rifle, and became the standard ammunition of the Japanese armed ...
The 7.92x33mm Kurz intermediate cartridge was developed in 1940 by the Polte Werke company in Germany. This cartridge is usually listed as the first ...
7.62×45 Vz.52 This cartridge was developed during late 1940s and early 1950s by Czhechoslovak military experts, and originally was chambered in just ...
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