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Parent topics

• United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat ^[e]
• Rifle [r]: Primarily a shoulder-filed individual weapon, used for hunting, target shooting, and infantry combat; the term may also apply to larger artillery pieces with rifled barrels that impart stabilizing spin to their projectiles ^[e]
  • Assault rifle [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• M4 carbine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• M249 (machine gun) [r]: U.S. standard light machine gun, also called the squad automatic weapon, firing 5.56mm ammunition, and is a derivative of the Belgian FN MINIMI (machine gun) ^[e]
• Picatinny rail [r]: U.S. military specification for a general-purpose mounting rail for small arms accessories, widely used for sporting weapons as well ^[e]
• M203 grenade launcher [r]: Add brief definition or description
• M320 grenade launcher [r]: Add brief definition or description
• AN/PVS-4 sight [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• M14 rifle [r]: American rifle, in service 1957-1965, capable of automatic fire of 0.30 caliber bullets ^[e]