Truvelo Armoury is a South African firearms manufacturer. It is a division of Truvelo Specialised Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd. Based in

Midrand Midrand is a town in central Gauteng, South Africa. It is situated in-between Centurion, Gauteng, Centurion and Sandton. Formerly an independent municipality, Midrand now forms part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. History ...

(Johannesburg) the company produces a range of rifles and other small arms for military, law enforcement and civilian users.

Products

*Anti-material rifles *Sniper rifles *

Assault rifles An assault rifle is a select fire rifle that uses an intermediate-rifle cartridge and a detachable magazine.C. Taylor, ''The Fighting Rifle: A Complete Study of the Rifle in Combat'', F.A. Moyer ''Special Forces Foreign Weapons Handbook'', ...

*Rifle accessories *Hunting rifles *Rifle actions and barrels *

Submachine guns A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges. The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, to describe its design concept as an automa ...

Sniper rifles

Truvelo sniper rifles are a family of bolt-action

sniper rifles A sniper rifle is a high-precision, long range shooting, long-range rifle. Requirements include high accuracy, reliability, mobility, concealment, and optics, for anti-personnel weapon, anti-personnel, anti-materiel rifle, anti-materiel and sur ...

manufactured in South Africa in calibers ranging from

7.62×51mm NATO The 7.62×51mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 7.62 NATO) is a rimless, straight walled, bottlenecked, centerfire rifle cartridge. It is a standard for small arms among NATO countries. First developed in the 1950s, the cartridge had first be ...

20×110mm 20 mm caliber is a specific size of popular autocannon ammunition. The dividing line between smaller-caliber weapons, commonly called "small arm, guns", from larger-caliber "cannons" (e.g. machine gun vs. autocannon), is conventionally taken to b ...

. Models include: ;Sniper rifles: *

* .338 Lapua Magnum * 12.7×99mm NATO * 14.5×114mm ;Anti-materiel rifles: *

20×42mm The Neopup PAW-20 (Personal Assault Weapon, 20 mm) is a 20×42mm semi-automatic grenade launcher designed by Tony Neophytou and as of 2015, is produced and marketed by Denel. Overview The PAW-20 is a hand-held, semi-automatic direct f ...

20×82mm The 20×82mm (sometimes 20×82mm Mauser) is a German 20 mm caliber Cartridge (firearms), cartridge developed during World War II for the MG 151/20 cannon. It continues to see usage today with the South-African Vektor GA-1 autocannon and Denel NTW ...

Shotgun

* NeoStead NS2000

Libyan civil war controversy

Discovery of Truvelo sniper rifles in Libya during the

2011 Libyan civil war The Libyan civil war, also known as the First Libyan Civil War and Libyan Revolution, was an armed conflict in 2011 in the North African country of Libya that was fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and rebel groups that were ...

caused considerable controversy, in parliament and in the press with various government officials making contradictory statements about the matter. The international NGO,

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discovered documents proving the sale in Tripoli; 120 CMS 7.62×51 rifles were delivered in late 2010

References

External links

Official website
{{Witwatersrand companies Defence companies of South Africa Manufacturing companies based in Johannesburg Johannesburg Region A South African companies established in 1994 Firearm manufacturers of South Africa