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CAR-15 FAMILY③ Caliber:　 5.56 × 45mm M193  CAR-15 Survival Rifle The CAR-15 survival rifle is numbered Model 608 at Colt. The "survival rifle" is a weapon for aircrews to use after parachuting after being shot down. In fact, it is equivalent to the so-called PDW now. The gun was designed in early 1964 because the US Air Force issued a competition for the selection of self-defense weapons for pilots to escape after parachuting. The main requirements of the Air Force for this weapon are: very compact, firing .223 Remington bullets, a magazine capacity of 30 rounds, and a gun and three spare magazines can be placed in a package no longer than 15 inches (about 38 cm). Robert Gaddis made full use of the characteristics of the upper and lower receiver structure of the AR-15 based on the CAR-15 submachine gun that was being developed at the time. It can be disassembled into two parts: the barrel/upper receiver and the lower receiver/stock, and stored in the pilot's bag together ...

CAR-15 FAMILY ① Caliber:　 5.56 × 45mm M193 The meaning of CAR-15 is confusing. In current popular usage, it is a generic name for many shortened carbine versions of the Colt AR-15 rifle, while technically it only refers to the CAR-15 weapon system developed by Colt in the 1960s. The Colt CAR-15 was a coveted personal defense weapon among Army aircrews during the Vietnam War. There never seemed enough of the stubby little guns to go around. (Firearms News photo) CAR-15 family of rifles being marketed Colt's own product catalog used the name CAR-15 very early, but most soldiers had never seen it. When Colt obtained the patent and technical data of Armalite's AR-15 in 1959, although there were still many controversies about the AR-15 in the US Army at that time, Colt had already begun to develop a gun family around the initial weapon prototype and named it " CAR-15 5.56mm Military Weapons System", where "C" is the abbreviation of Colt . They felt that if the...

GAU-5A detachable survival rifle Caliber:　5.56 × 45mm M 855 GAU-5A is a new life-saving rifle that the U.S. Air Force began to equip in 2019. The gun is not produced by the weapons supplier of the Ministry of Defense, but is modified by the U.S. Air Force itself from the carbines used by active ground crews. The U.S. Air Force has always planned to update the self-defense weapons of fixed-wing aircraft aircrews, but has not seriously invested time and energy to realize this. The birth of GAU-5A was due to a tragedy four and a half years ago. On Christmas Eve 2014, an F-16AM fighter jet of the Royal Jordanian Air Force crashed due to mechanical failure while attacking ISIS militants in northeastern Syria (ISIS claimed that they shot it down). The pilot, Lieutenant Muath al-Kasasbeh, ejected but was captured by ISIS after landing. ISIS cruelly burned the pilot to death in an iron cage in early January 2015. The direct result of this incident is that many countries have begun to consider...