The Model 45A is a bullpup battle rifle or light machine gun designed in the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth in 1945, chambered for .30-06 Springfield, gas operated, and fed from the 20-round detachable box magazine of the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, sighted through an integral optical scope rather than iron sights. It existed only in prototype or mockup form and never entered production, and documentation of it remained sparse until annotated photographs of the rifle were found in the archives of the United States Army Signal Corps. Its exact intended purpose remains unclear, with sources describing it as either an experimental light machine gun or a field-expedient design. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Service StatusPrototype or Experimental 1 Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category) Weapon Class Sources
1. Wikipedia: Model 45A
Service-status attribute (model-45a)
It existed only in prototype or mockup form and never entered production, and documentation of it remained sparse until annotated photographs of the rifle were found in the archives of the United States Army Signal Corps.
Caliber attribute (model-45a)
The Model 45A was a .30 caliber bullpup battle rifle/light machine gun developed by the United States Army in the Philippines in 1945.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Model 45A
Wikidata Q6888186, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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