Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Launch of the Mk11
The Pentagon has ordered a new rifle for the Marines and Forces for Special Operations. This self-loading rifle MK11, which has been manufactured by the Knights Armament Company, has caliber 7.62 mm, magazines for about five or twenty shells and it also has the mounted riflescope. This rifle is being manufactured in several modifications; all of them differ from each other only in the length of the barrel. The main designer of the Mk11 is Eugene Stoner, the creator of the well known Rifle M-16.
Rifle's weight depending on the length of its barrel varies from 3.5 to 4.9 kg, the length of the barrel has three modifications 406mm, 508 mm or 610 mm. Mk-11 uses standard shell 7.62x51 and is designed for 1.5 meters target shooting. Shooting accuracy at 100 meters distance is 28 mm.
