assault rifle

A rifle designed for combat, with selective fire (capable of shooting in both fully automatic and semi automatic modes, or in some cases, 2 to 3 shots). The German StG44 is the very first successful assault rifle ever designed and introduced in battle.

In the strictest of definitions, for a firearm to be considered an assault rifle it must at least follow these characteristics:

• It must be an individual weapon with provision to fire from the shoulder (i.e. a buttstock);
• It must be capable of selective fire;
• It must have an intermediate-power cartridge: more power and velocity than a pistol but less than a standard rifle or battle rifle (i.e. 5.56x45mm NATO);
• Its ammunition must be supplied from a detachable box magazine.

List of assault rifles

This tag implicates rifle (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: adaptive_combat_rifle, ak-102, ak-107, ak-12, ak-15, ak-47, ak-74, ak-74m, akm, aks-74u, an-94, as_val, beretta_ar70/90, daewoo_k1, daewoo_k11, daewoo_k2, enfield_sa-80, famas, fn_f2000, fn_fnc, fn_scar, h&k_g11, h&k_g36, h&k_g41, h&k_hk33, h&k_hk416, howa_type_89, imi_galil, iwi_tavor, l85, m16, m4_carbine, ma5, ots-14_groza, qbz-03, qbz-95, sig_551, sig_556, sig_sg552, steyr_acr, steyr_aug, stg44, t65_assault_rifle, t91_assault_rifle, type_56_assault_rifle, vektor_cr-21, zastava_m21, and zastava_m70 (learn more).