British SAS Weapons
Like other special forces groups, the British Special Air Service relies on a plethora of different weapon types to accomplish its given missions.
1999
The Accuracy International AW50 resides in the same league of heavy battlefield guns that include the well-known American Bar...
1982
The L96A1 is an Accuracy International-produced sniper rifle and currently the sniper rifle of choice for the British Army. T...
1935
The Browning High-Power (or Fabrique Nationale FN GP35 - "GP" for "Grande Puissance") has a lineage dating back to the origin...
1969
The M203 40mm grenade launcher is a single-shot system that was designed to be attached under the barrel of an assault rifle ...
1984
The C7 assault rifle stemmed from the Canadian decision to go with the NATO 5.56mm cartridge as the standard ammunition of th...
1988
The Diemaco (now Colt Canada) C8 is the "assault carbine" form of the C7 - the C7 being the standard-issue assault rifle of t...
1983
The M16A2 became the follow up design to the much-maligned M16 debuting with American forces from 1959 onwards (particularly ...
1990
The M16A4 is the fourth incarnation of the now-successful M16 series of automatic assault rifles. The M16 system that debuted...
1994
The M4/M4A Carbine is a 5.56mm compact, lightweight, gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed weapon system with selective fire...
1993
The M4A1 SOPMOD is a derivative model of the base M4 Carbine of the United States military. The M4 Carbine itself is a compac...
1982
The Fabrique National FN Minimi has quickly evolved into the light-support gun of choice by several key nations including Bri...
1981
The FIM-92 Stinger is a portable, lightweight anti-aircraft defense system currently in service with the United States milita...
2006
The HK 417 began as a privately-funded company venture intended to supply US special forces with a modular battlefield weapon...
2006
The 40mm single-shot, breech-loading Heckler & Koch HK AG36 ("Anbaugranatwerfer 36") was designed as a possible grenade-launc...
1959
At the end of World War 2, German engineers were working on perfecting a new breed of service rifle known as the "assault rif...
1966
One of the most popular submachine guns ever produced, the Heckler & Koch HK MP5 ("Maschinenpistole 5") became a common sight...
1974
The excellence of the original Heckler & Koch HK MP5 series pushed the need for a dedicated suppressed form to be used by spe...
2010
The United States Army has selected the single-shot 40mm HK M320 GLM ("Grenade Launcher Module") as its replacement for the v...
1970
The Ingram MAC-10 (M10) was a short-lived, compact submachine gun foray seeing limited production and equally-limited action ...
1960
The M18 Claymore anti-personnel mine was specifically designed to kill or maim enemy ground troops approaching a position fro...
1963
The M72 LAW was the standard shoulder-fired anti-armor weapon for the United States military and its allies throughout the Co...
1950
One of the most famous and popular of the Remington shotgun lines became the Remington M870 (Model 870) series. The type over...
1981
The ARWEN 37 anti-riot weapon was designed in the late 1970's, ultimately reaching production in the early 1980's. The system...
1967
Design of the Mk 19 system began in 1966 by the Naval Ordnance Center out of Louisville with the required evaluations followi...
1984
The SIG-Sauer P226 was developed from the original P220 model specifically to compete in the US Army pistol trials of the ear...
1939
The Welrod was designed in the early part of World War 2 after a very short development period by the British War Office. The...
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