The ArmaLite AR-7 Explorer is a semi-automatic firearm in .22 Long Rifle caliber, developed in 1959 from the AR-5 that was adopted by the U.S. Air Force as a pilot and aircrew survival weapon. [1] The AR-7 was adopted and modified by the Israeli Air Force as an aircrew survival weapon in the 1980s.

2020年2月16日 · In this overview we take a look at a storied survival rifle design from the genius of Eugene Stoner, The ArmaLite Rifle 7, or AR-7.

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2012年12月12日 · I bet many of you think of the AR-7, a .22 LR semi-automatic rifle. The AR-7 is one of the few firearms that have been marketed with the “survival rifle” moniker. In fact, any gun can be utilized as a “survival” gun but relatively few have been marketed as such. Eugene Stoner designed the prototype of the AR-7 at ArmaLite in the late 1950s.

2016年12月27日 · In the nuclear age that followed World War II, America’s fleet of long-range strategic bombers began operating over thousands of miles of uninhabited terrain. The newly independent Air Force...

2017年7月14日 · First introduced by ArmaLite in 1959 as the “AR-7 Explorer,” it became instantly popular on the civilian market. The rifle used a lightweight 16” detachable barrel, first made of aluminum (later composite polymer) with a steel liner.

The AR-5's design became the basis of the civilian AR-7. The gun was chambered for the popular .22 long rifle cartridge and employed a semi-automatic blowback action rather than the bolt operation of its predecessor.

2023年6月2日 · The Explorer is a lightweight (only 2.5 pounds originally, or 3.5 pounds now), handy, semiautomatic weapon in .22 Long Rifle, with an eight-round magazine, and civilian-legal, steel-lined, aluminum, 16-inch barrel, which can be readily taken apart and stored inside its own stock, like the AR-5/MA-1 rifle, and easily reassembled within just 30 ...