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Colt Advanced Piston Carbine

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The Colt Advanced Piston Carbine, or Colt APC, is a lightweight, modular, piston-operated 5.56mm carbine built by Colt's Manufacturing Company, capable of both semi-automatic and automatic fire and fitted with an articulating-link piston meant to reduce operating stress compared with a conventional piston system. Colt entered it, under the name Enhanced M4, into the United States Army's Individual Carbine competition in 2012 as a prospective replacement for the M4 carbine, but the Army cancelled the competition in 2013 before any weapon was selected. 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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Classification
Caliber
5.56x45mm NATO 1
Service Status
In Service 1
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Small Arm 1
Weapon Class
small arm 1
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1. Wikipedia: Colt Advanced Piston Carbine
  • service-status
    service = 2010s-present
  • caliber
    cartridge = 5.56×45mm NATO; (.223 Remington)
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Wikidata: Colt Advanced Piston Carbine
Wikidata Q25106042, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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