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| After World War II the NATO Nations
spent a lot of time and our money on experiments to try and come up with the perfect NATO cartridge that all NATO nations would been able to use. The idea was to make sure all the allied nations used the same ammunition to make it easier to supply munitions in future conflicts. The USA ended up with the 7.62 NATO (.308 Winchester) . The rest of the NATO countries decided to adopt it as the first universal cartridge for the allied NATO nations, due to a lot of political pull by the USA. It's too bad England didn't win out with this cartridge, as it had good knock -down power with far less recoil than the 7.62 NATO. These were experimental cartridges and the caliber was never put into major production or adopted for any rifles other than the experimental rifles in the test. |
| 280 British or 280/300 |
| 7mm Military Experimental |
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| British Cartridges |
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| 7.62 NATO |
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| 280 British |
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| These are head stamped (7mm54 FN), as they were made in 1952, 7mm = 280 caliber, and the maker was FNIndustries or (Fabrique Nationale) in Belgium) under British Militarycontract. 3 Crimped Primer with brass Case and Steel Jacketed Projectile Very Limited, >>Limit One!<< |
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| $ 19.95 per Cartridge |
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| Post Note: The 7.62 NATO was short lived, and replaced withthe under powered 5.56 NATO. Now 50 years later, the NATO nations are still looking for the perfect warfare cartridge, and it is looking like this may have been the correct cartridge to use all the time? |
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