7.62×51mm NATO

The 7.62×51mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 7.62 NATO) is a rimless, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It is a standard for small arms among NATO countries.
First developed in the 1950s, the cartridge had first been introduced in U.S. service for the M14 rifle and M60 machine gun. Many other firearms that use the 7.62×51mm NATO remain in service (especially various marksman/sniper rifles, medium machine guns/general-purpose machine guns such as the M240, and others). 
The cartridge is used by military personnel, on mounted and crew-served weapons that are mounted to vehicles, aircraft and ships.
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