The SOCIMI AR-831 is an assault rifle of Italian origin based on the
AR-15
An AR-15-style rifle is any lightweight semi-automatic rifle based on the Colt AR-15 design. The original ArmaLite AR-15 is a scaled-down derivative of Eugene Stoner's ArmaLite AR-10 design. The then Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporatio ...
. The weapon is gas operated and is chambered in the
5.56×45mm NATO
The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, but often pronounced "five-five-six") is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal. It consists of the SS109, L110, an ...
round.
See also
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Daewoo K2
Daewoo Precision Industries K2 assault rifle is the standard service rifle of the South Korean military. It was developed by the South Korean Agency for Defense Development and manufactured by S&T Motiv (formerly Daewoo Precision Industries) an ...
, another M16/AK derivative
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List of assault rifles
References
External links
* http://www.securityarms.com/20010315/galleryfiles/2900/2917.htm
* http://www.earmi.it/armi/atlas2/707.htm - Picture
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5.56 mm assault rifles
Assault rifles of Italy
ArmaLite AR-10 derivatives