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7.62×51

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The 7.62×51 (7.62 mm NATO) is a US-developed rimless bottleneck round, which was introduced in 1954 to replace the earlier .30-06 Springfield (7.62×63) round, but provide similar performance. The 7.62x51 was the fruition of T65 developmental series of rounds, research on which started in the early 1940s. The T65E5 round in the T65 series would be adopted as the new NATO 7.62 mm military cartridge. Military 7.62x51 ammunition may be Berdan o...

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