Meet the Powerful German G3 Assault Rifle
But what has made the G3 design so much more enduring than the FAL and M14? Is it actually a better rifle? After World War II, the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization collectively decided to adopt a new class of infantry weapon. The new battle rifles would arm almost every NATO nation by the 1950s were lightweight, box fed, and chambered in 7.61x51mm NATO. The Belgian FN FAL dominated this class of weapon, proving to be the most popular once also adopted across the Commonwealth and by many other nations in the third world and ...
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