The M14 rifle, officially the United States Rifle, Caliber 7.62 mm, M14, is an American battle rifle chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. It became the standard-issue rifle for the U.S. military in 1957, replacing the M1 Garand rifle in service with the U.S. Army by 1958 and the U.S. Marine Corps by 1965; deliveries of service rifles to ...

2018年5月14日 · Production began in 1959, and Springfield Armory, Winchester, Harrington & Richardson and Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge Inc. (TRW) produced 1,376,031 M14 service rifles until 1964. Initially, the unit...

2020年7月6日 · Meet America’s last battle rifle. M14. The M14 was in some ways a perfection of the earlier M1 Garand rifle design that served the United States during World War II and in Korea. While the M1...

2024年3月10日 · Late in World War II, the M1 Rifle became to the military arms field what the Model A Ford and early Ford V-8's became to dirt track racers. In a search for a suitable mechanism capable of...

2022年5月25日 · Instead of opting for a capable, existing foreign design, it proved favorable to take on a locally-designed and produced American automatic rifle. The new weapon became the Springfield "M14" which was more or less a highly modernized M1 Garand rifle of World War 2 (1939-1945) fame. Design work on the new rifle began in 1954.

2016年1月30日 · Although the M14 was phased out as the standard-issue rifle by 1970, M14 variants are still used by various branches of the U.S. Military as well as other armed forces, especially as a sniper rifle and as a designated marksman rifle, due to its excellent accuracy and effectiveness at long range.

The M14 rifle was the last American "battle rifle" (weapons that fire full-power rifle ammunition, such as the 7.62×51mm) issued in quantity to U.S. military personnel. The M14 serves as the basis for the M21 and M25 sniper rifles.

The M14’s Difficult Starting Point • M14 – slated to replace all shoulder arms to be complemented by M60 MG M1 Garand – “Greatest battle implement ever devised” Gen. Patton M1 / M2 Carbine Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR – M1918A2)

2018年2月6日 · The M14 was the standard infantry rifle for all Army and Marine units that deployed to Vietnam in 1965. In April 1958, the government-owned Springfield Armory in Massachusetts initiated production of the M14 rifle.

The M-14 is an American Semi-Automatic Rifle Created by the Springfield Company to replace the M1 Garand, it was replaced by M16 as American main battle rifle, but his variants continues in activity as a Sniper Rifle. The experience gained by US troops during the Second World War showed that the M1 Garand rifle has a lot of things to be improved.