You can mark you interesting snippets of text that will be available through a unique link in your browser.


Garand rifle

Translation
Garand rifle
/gar"euhnd, geuh rand"/.
See M-1.
[1935-40; named after John C. GARAND]

* * *

▪ weapon
also called  M1 rifle 

      semiautomatic, gas-operated .30-calibre rifle adopted by the U.S. Army in 1936. It was developed by John C. Garand (Garand, John C.), a civilian engineer employed at the Springfield Armory, Springfield, Mass. The Garand was the first semiautomatic military rifle used as a standard combat shoulder weapon. It was the basic U.S. infantry weapon in both World War II and the Korean War. More than 5,000,000 M1s were manufactured.

      The Garand weighed 9.5 pounds (4.3 kg) and was fed from an eight-round clip. Its 24-inch (61-centimetre) barrel was rifled with four grooves. Located next to the muzzle on the underside of the barrel was the small gas port that fed some of the propellant gases into a small cylinder that operated the autoloading mechanism.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

  
Share  

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Garand rifle — noun Etymology: John C. Garand Date: 1931 M1 rifle …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Garand rifle — Оружейное производство: винтовка Гаранда …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

  • M1 Garand rifle — Infobox Weapon name=Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 caption= origin=flag|United States type=Semi automatic rifle is ranged=yes service=1936–1963 used by=See Users wars=World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War (limited) designer=John C. Garand design… …   Wikipedia

  • garand — n. [From the inventor, John C. Garand.] A semiautomatic rifle, also called the {M 1}, used by soldiers of the U. S. army in World War II and Korea. It was the standard weapon issued to infantrymen. Syn: Garand rifle, M 1, M 1 rifle. [WordNet 1.5… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Garand, John C. — ▪ American engineer in full  John Cantius Garand   born Jan. 1, 1888, St. Rémi, Quebec, Can. died Feb. 16, 1974, Springfield, Mass., U.S.  Canadian born U.S. firearms engineer, inventor of the M1 semiautomatic rifle, with which U.S. infantrymen… …   Universalium

  • Garand, John C(antius) — born Jan. 1, 1888, St. Rémi, Que., Can. died Feb. 16, 1974, Springfield, Mass., U.S. Canadian born U.S. firearms engineer. He moved with his family to Connecticut in 1898. From 1919 he worked as a civilian employee at the Springfield Armory.… …   Universalium

  • Garand — /gar euhnd, geuh rand /, n. John C(antius) Fr. /kahonn tsyyuus/, 1888 1974, U.S. inventor of M 1 semiautomatic rifle, born in Canada. * * * …   Universalium

  • Garand — noun a) Informal name for the M 1 semiautomatic rifle. b) derived from …   Wiktionary

  • M1 Garand — Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 M1 Garand with en bloc clips. Type Semi automatic rifle Place of origin …   Wikipedia

  • Pedersen rifle — The Pedersen Rifle, officially known in final form as the T1E3 rifle, was a United States semi automatic rifle designed by John Pedersen that was made in small numbers for testing by the United States Army during the 1920s as part of a program to …   Wikipedia