Originally known as the Colt M16 LMG or simply as the Colt LMG (Light Machine Gun), this weapon was developed as a joint venture by Colt and Diemaco, a Canadian firm licensed by Colt in 1982 to produce variants of the M16 family for the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2005, Diemaco was acquired by Colt's Manufacturing LLC and renamed Colt Canada.

LSW是轻型支援武器（Light Support Weapon）的缩写，原本是与柯尔特公司联合研制，曾参与加拿大的班用轻机枪选型，但落败于FN Minimi ，后者成为现在的C9。LSW与柯尔特生产的M16A2/A3轻机枪型相同，因此在迪玛科被柯尔特收购后，现在则替柯尔特代工M16A2/A3轻机枪。

The Colt M16 LSW is a light support weapon variant of the Colt M16, it was used alongside the M60 machine gun until the adoption of the M240 a license built FN MAG. Colt company build a variety of heavy barreled “automatic rifles” (machine …

2010年9月1日 · The standard M16 lower receiver is used and the only difference is the marking on the fire control: only Safe and Fire positions, no semi option. However, the fire control components could be dropped in any selective fire lower receiver.

The M16 rifle (officially designated Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16) is a family of assault rifles adapted from the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle for the United States military. The original M16 rifle was a 5.56×45mm automatic rifle with a 20-round magazine.

2021年10月25日 · Modernization of the Model 750 to a flat top upper receiver, addition of a bayonet lug, 1913 rails on either side of the front sight block, and relocation of the bipod to a spigot mounted off the barrel resulted in the Colt Model 950. Colt markets it as the Light Support Weapon (LSW) and/or Automatic Rifle.

The 5.56 mm Light Support Weapon (LSW) is designed to provide small expeditionary units with a high volume of accurate support fire without increasing the logistical load. The LSW shares the same ammunition, magazines and operating principals as the rifle or carbine.

A light machine gun variant of the C7, the LSW features an enlarged gas tube and heavier barrel with a correspondingly larger handguard with a distinctive square profile and detachable carry handle. The weapon is only capable of being fired in fully automatic from an open bolt (hence no need for a forward assist), and features a bipod, vertical ...

The Open Bolt M16 LSW – Colt Model 950HistoryEver since Colt acquired Eugene Stoner’s design for the M16 from Armalite, they have been trying to use it in de...

Colt M16 automatic rifle is gas operated, air cooled, magazine fed weapon which fires from open bolt. Gas system is copied from M16 rifle, and is of direct-impingement type, as there is no dedicated gas piston, and powder gases are fed from the gas block via …