![]() ![]() The rifle below is the M1918 version used in WW1. ![]() The BAR continued its service into the 1970s. The BAR was used also in WW2 where it gained a bipod, carrying handle on the barrel and bakelite hardware. It used a 20 round detachable magazine, although a 40 round version was used for aircraft gunners. The rifle is gas operated and air cooled, weighs 16 pounds and is 47 inches long. France was also impressed, looking to replace the Chauchat rifle and ordered 15,000 as well. A total of 102, 174 were made between 1918 to 1919. also started making the rifles, with 52,000 being delivered before the end of hostilities. Shortly after WRAC got up and running, Colt and Marlin-Rockwell Corp. By June of 1918, WRAC was in full production, making BAR's 9,000 a month. Initially these weapons were going to made by Colt, however they were overloaded with orders, so the contract went to Winchester Repeating Arms Company (WRAC), with an initial batch of 25,000 ordered. Although the weapon was introduced in 1917, to avoid confusion with the M1917 Browning, water cooled machine gun, the BAR was designated the M1918. The brilliant weapons designer John Browning, proposed to weapon to US officials in 1917 and were so impressed, gave him a contract on the spot to produce the weapon. The US army wanted a lightweight weapon that could keep up with advancing troops and that could be operated by a single soldier. The BAR was built to help standardize the US Armies weapons as they were using various types of light and heavy machine guns. This rifle was officially known as Rifle, Caliber. Here is my deactivated Browning Automatic Rifle, or commonly referred to as the BAR. ![]()
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