Sniper rifle M-14

[Zarvan]

M14 rifle, officially the United States Rifle, 7.62 mm, M14, is an American selective fire automatic rifle that fires 7.62×51mm NATO (.308 Winchester) ammunition. It was the standard issue U.S. rifle from 1959 to 1970. The M14 was used for U.S. Army, Coast Guard and Marine Corps basic and advanced individual training, and was the standard issue infantry rifle for U.S. military personnel in the Contiguous United States, Europe, and South Korea, until it was replaced by the M16 rifle, in 1970. The rifle remains in limited front line service within all branches of the U.S. military. It is also used as a ceremonial weapon by honor guards, color guards, drill teams, ceremonial guards, and the like.

The M14 rifle was the last American "battle rifle" (weapons that fire full-power rifle ammunition, such as the 7.62×51mm) issued in quantity to U.S. military personnel. The M14 serves as the basis for the M21 and M25 sniper rifles. In 1969, tooling for the M14 was sold to Taiwan and later in the 1990s, up to 479,367 M14's were destroyed by Presidential Executive Order under the Clinton Administration.

The M14 was developed from a long line of experimental weapons based upon the M1 rifle. Although the M1 was among the most advanced infantry rifles of the late 1930s, it was not a perfect weapon. Modifications were already beginning to be made to the basic M1 rifle's design during the last months of World War II. Changes included adding fully automatic firing capability and replacing the 8-round en bloc clips with a detachable box magazine holding 20 rounds. Winchester, Remington, and Springfield Armory's own John Garand offered different conversions. Garand's design, the T20, was the most popular, and T20 prototypes served as the basis for a number of Springfield test rifles from 1945 through the early 1950s.



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[tarrar]

Operation since WW2, I started to like the rifle even more after watching Jack Reacher.

 

[Hakan]

This is an excellent rifle. Very accurate and reliable.

 

[MilSpec]

M14 is slightly overated, i would place FNFAL's and G3 higher than the M14's

 

[sms]

M14 is slightly overated, i would place FNFAL's and G3 higher than the M14's

I concur, I'll select FNFAL over M14 any day!

 

[Hakan]

M14 is slightly overated, i would place FNFAL's and G3 higher than the M14's

I concur, I'll select FNFAL over M14 any day!

Why?

 

[najeeb ahmed]

what is the price of long range russian snipper... plz tell me

 

[Zarvan]

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  In urban areas, on the contrary, the breakthrough power of 7.62 mm NATO ammunition proved to be ideal against an enemy who is in the trenches or shelters, although the size of this caliber weapons pose a problem when moving in urban areas (narrow streets, small courtyards, buildings, narrow corridors inside buildings, etc.). Second, the finding is under constant fire weapons caliber 7.62 x 54R, type Dragunov SVD, or assault rifles H & K G-3 7.62 x 51 mm (models used by guerrillas usually manufactured under license in Iran or Pakistan), U.S. Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have had more opportunity to reflect on the benefits of this ammunition with heavier grains.
  
  The U.S. approach to the problem was at the beginning of the introduction of a number of so-called “battle rifles” (combat rifles), and M-14 rifles that were years languishing in the armory. However, on the other hand specialists SOF (Special Operations Forces) U.S. Navy have always used the M-14 for operational tasks, which was not the case with the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) and the U.S. Army, where this weapon until recently used only for certain situations such as parades and official ceremonies. With no other solution to immediately fix the problem with the supply of precision ammunition for your M-14, U.S. troops have found an alternative to replacing the standard 7.62 mm NATO ammunition M-80 “Ball” with a grain of 147 Stove, simply removing bullets from machine gun type cartridges from feed belts M-240.It turns out that the available reserves of sniper ammunition and shot M-118 LR with a grain of 177 other heating using snipers and gunners infantry units, were insufficient to meet the new requirements and present (it seems that this problem has not been solved since the individual units The U.S. Army is still paying civilian market purchases). If we leave this problem as well as large size and weight of a weapon, which in certain situations (fighting in a narrow space, etc.) interfere with free movement on the battlefield, all the users claim that there is nothing better than the M-14 for shooting opponents sheltered behind a wall or however, stopping easily encapsulated in a moving vehicle.
  
  Currently in the classic American infantry units deployed OS to the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan are the original M-14 and / or version SOPMOD (Special Operations Peculiar Modification) offered by the American firm Troy Industries Inc.. - Usually part of every infantry platoon are 2-3 per piece. The units of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), this model was never withdrawn from general use since it included as members of the SEALs from the composition NAVSPECWARCOM (Naval Special Warfare Command) and operatives 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (SFOD -D), have long been used for operational tasks. U.S. Navy frogman is used only version of the M-14 Mod. 0 EBR (Enhanced Battle Rifle) with a telescopic butt and rails for mounting a variety of accessories, manufactured by Sage International Ldt and from Smith Enterprise, and Delta Force operatives used a modified version of these rifles are equipped with fast Aimpoint sight (is being used during the D-boys Operation GOTHIC SERPENT October 1993., in Mogadishu, Somalia).
  
  M-14 with its various special versions, known as SOPMOD, today is produced by a myriad of overseas companies like Troy Industries, Fulton Amory / Sage International, GA Precision, Bagder Ordnance, United Arms Service, etc, etc … The weapons, however, are not considered , by American soldiers, sniper rifles because they’re used to support rifles M-110 SASS (Semi-Automatic Sniper System). M-110 SASS is a new sniper rifle recently adopted by the U.S. Army, product firm Knight Armament Company of Titusville (Florida) and derivative SR-25/Mk-11 Model 0 rifle used by the underwater special forces SEAL unit. These semi-automatic rifles SOPMOD, usually equipped tombstones EOSight, ACOG or Aimpoint actually processed M-14 equipped with modern appliances (butt of a synthetic material, Picatinny rails, folding and adjustable bipod, etc..), Are still used in the U.S. Army weaponry, both in operational as well as backup unit (National Guard and Army Reserve).
  
  As for the USMC seems to be a tendency not followed in the methodology and the only M-14, which are currently used for the operational functions of the basic units of Corps model M-14 DMR (Designated Marksman Rifle), which is equipped with a small number of sharpshooters and archers, infantry teams or, scout snipers sniper use this only if the operating model and the M-40A3, proves inadequate in certain tactical operational situations. Unlike models EBR modification produced for Marines, M-1 DMR, is a lot better equipped: butt of fiberglass McMillan Tactical M-2A, a tube of 560 mm (22 inches) of stainless steel type “match bull barrel”, produced by the firms Krieger and Mike Rock Rifle Barrels Inc., rails Picatinny GG & G, silencer Ops Inc, etc … It is important to note that the M-14 DMR used within the USMC and by teams EOD (Esplosive Ordnance Disposal) for remote neutralization of unexploded ordnance, mines, and bombs.
  
  Thanks to the return of M-14 rifles in the U.S., which seems to have found his second spring after the withdrawal from service before about almost 50 years, the so-called assault rifles are current again. It’s not an ordinary “fantasy” U.S. SOF, to distinguish them from other traditional infantry units, using systematically different equipment and weapons from those standard in conventional forces, but on the real operational needs. Carefully designed to “digest” strong ammunition, robust, mechanically reliable in any environmental and / or combat environment, able to hit the target far away, these models M-14 enjoyed almost legendary status, but not because their return is considered anachronistic .On the contrary, recent introduction of the use of modern assault rifles 7.62 mm NATO (FN SCAR-H, HK 417, etc.) confirms the lack of weapons in the 5.56 mm NATO in certain operational situations, and not just within the operations Mout ( Military Operations on Urban Terrain). This need was confirmed on the basis of the experience gained on the battlefield during the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, and on the basis of testimony from soldiers in the field.
  
  Return of semi-automatic rifles to 7.62 mm NATO operational use in the U.S. Army, U.S. SOF have a larger number of competitors for the selection of the Infantry Corps. Today, except for M-14, which has been used for several decades, more and more self pioneer in some units, and a new streamlined model. It is a Mini SA58 FAL OSW, compact varieties of Belgian FN FAL produced in the U.S. since the company DSArms. This weapon, underwent a series of tests checking by the Army Marksmanship Training Unit (AMTU) from Infantry School Fort Benning (Georgia), with tubes of only 280mm (11 inches), meet the requirements within the CQB (Close Quarte Battle). Powerful and compact rifle Mini SA-58 FAL OSW, with frame 30 bullets created in accordance with the machine gun BREN L-4A3, is usually equipped optics EO Tech ideal for close combat. With such a model INVEX Team (Investigation Extraction) U.S. Army is happy because finally in a compact design with a system powerful enough to guarantee them a so-called “first hit kill” (first lethal hit), also protected against secondary targets.
  
  Background M-14
  
  Rifle M-14 was the first assault rifle was adopted in the armament of U.S. Armed Forces, starting from 1957. as a substitute for a rifle M-1 Garand. Its mass production started in 1958. year, a total of more than 1,000,000 of these guns, when the late ’60s was replaced by a new assault rifle, M-16. Since 1968. year, the first specimens of this weapon, a total of 173,000, were sold under the name Type Taiwanu 57th Thanks primarily to Washington, ’70s these weapons are equipped with many Latin American countries (such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela), Africa (Morocco and Zimbabwe) and Asia (South Korea, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and the Philippines). This rifle, after the replacement model M-16, remained in limited numbers within the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Army.
  
  M-14 rifle is based on one of the most modern rifles-’40 ‘s, M-1 Garand, which, although modern in that time, it was not perfect. The first modifications were reflected in the possibility of using an automatic firearm and replacing the frame with a new 8 cartridges of 20 cartridges. The most interesting solution offered by John Garand called T20, and this prototype is used as a base for testing rifles since 1945. to early ’50s. Springfield designer Earle Harvey, however, designed a new totally different weapons, T25, which would use the new 30 Light Rifle ammunition which later emerged Ammunition 7.62x51mm NATO and the commercial .308 Winchester. After countless prototypes, appears t44 version, which was in fact the prototype T20 rifle in caliber 7.62 mm and the assumed mechanism with a prototype T25. Later prototypes t44 used newly manufactured M-1 or T20, and the system function is adapted to the new shorter 7.62 mm bullet in place of the larger .30-06.
  
  Shortly afterwards prototype t44 participate in the contest U.S. Army, and his opponents were new T47 (modified T25) and the FN FAL model (t48), and 1957. wins in this competition, which led to the start of mass production of the 1958thThe adoption of the weapons and the 1959th year. However, delays in the delivery have led to the fact that the rifle fully arm the only 101st Airborne Division, until the end of 1961. year.
  
  The rifle was used briefly during the Vietnam War where he has distinguished itself as an ideal solution. Its length and weight to hinder the movement of the jungle, while the wooden parts are often deformed due to the humid climate.Strong Ammo 7.62 × 51 mm on the other hand produced a lot of energy (3.350 J), but it was difficult to control the automatic fire.
  
  Production guns soon stopped, although the intention was to replace those four types of weapons: M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, the M3 “Grease Gun” and the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). It is primarily meant to unify caliber work as easily logistical support troops on the ground, but the M-14 rifle not bring about the desired results.
  
  The rifle was the main weapon in the Vietnam War until the introduction into service of a new modern assault rifle, M-16 (1966-1969). 1968th The U.S. Army declares M16 as the “Standard A” rifle, and the M14 as “Limited Standard” weapon. However, M-14 was used later as the basis for the development of a sniper rifle M-21, which was the standard sniper weapon until 1988. when introducing a new sniper rifle M-24 SWS.
  
  Conclusion
  
  Team mixed weapons 7.62 / 5.56 mm NATO under U.S. OS there’s just so much in other modern Western armies. With the exception of a small number of cohorts who have not yet crossed the caliber 5.56 mm NATO (Greece, Norway, Portugal, etc.), or both of those calibers are considered important (for example Turkey uses models of 7.62 and 5.56 mm NATO HK G-3, HK-33. M-16, M-4 Carbine, etc.), most of the modern army uses 5.56 mm NATO caliber, leaving the 7.62 mm NATO use only snipers.
  
  The situation could still evolve because most of these countries, people involved in the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. As an example, suppose that Norway intends to keep the arms HK G-3, although it began with the introduction of modern HK 416 in 5.56 mm NATO, while in Spain suggest that many soldiers returned to the machine gun armament CETME L in 7.62 mm NATO although HK G-36, which replaced the CETME L in 5.56 mm NATO, seems like a satisfactory solution.
  
  All in all, the M-14 rifle as a weapon remains the longest used in the units of the U.S. Armed with the exception of the Springfield M1903 rifle. On the other side of M-14 rifle which was the standard infantry unit of the U.S. Army shortest time of all other rifles.
  
  Tactical and technical characteristics of the M-14
  Nation:USA
  Type:Assault Rifle
  The armsfrom 1957th to 1969th to date
  Projected:1954th The
  Were produced:1959th to 1964th
  Manufacturedabout 1.38 million pieces
  Weight (empty)LengthLength of pipe5.2 kg1181 mm560 mm (22 inches)
  Variants:M21
  XM25/M25
  DMR
  M14A1
  M14E1
  M25
  M14NM
  M14SMUD
  M14EBR
  M14SOPMOD
  Caliber:7.62 mm
  Ammunition:7.62 x 51 mm NATO
  Mechanism:borrowings powder gases
  Cadence shooting700-750 rounds per minute
  Effective range of fire:460m800m with optics
  Feeding:box of 20 rounds
  
  
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