MA5K carbine

The MA5K carbine (K—kurz "short"), designed and distributed by , its subsidiaries, and competitors, is a shorter-lighter family of weapons derived from the venerable best known as the service rifle for almost a century. Like other MA5 platforms, the MA5K frame also branches off into other weapons including several submachine gun variants. The MA5K is best known for its use by the community and by in urban warzones.
Like the MA5 series, the MA5K is a gas-operated bullpup weapon chambered in ammunition. The highly versatile and lower per-unit cost makes the MA5K popular with not just the UNSC, but with and paramilitary organizations as well. Almost every UNSC service branch has an in-service variation on the MA5K platform. However for the , the MA5K remains most synonymous with the earning the moniker "Spartan Carbine."
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*Many of the images featured in this article are sourced from talented artists in the Halo community. The author of the article does not claim ownership of any artwork on display and will attempt to refer back to the original producer(s) of the works below:
**Spartan-D042's Blender MA5K model
**405th: Tactonyx Halo Weapons Thread, Page 1, Tactonyx
**ArtStation: MA37K, Brain Tien
**Halo Map Forums: Weapons - Works in Process thread... , Page 366, tillice
**Imgur: ma5k 
**Reddit: I did make this actual weapon concept too, MA5K carbine., u/Charle_Roger
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