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SIG SG 530

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The SIG SG 530 was a prototype Swiss assault rifle developed in the 1960s by Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft and Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta to fire the then-new M193 ball and M196 tracer 5.56x45mm NATO military rounds. It weighed 3.45 kilograms, measured 940 millimeters, used a gas-operated roller-delayed blowback action, fired at 600 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 912 meters per second and a maximum firing range of 500 meters, and fed from a 30-round detachable box magazine. Designed between 1963 and 1972, only about twenty prototypes were built before the project was abandoned in the mid-1970s, though the SG 530 served as the basis for the more successful SG 540 and SG 550 rifles. 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
Prototype or Experimental 2
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Small Arm 2
Weapon Class
small arm 2
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1. Wikidata: SIG SG 530
Wikidata Q7390350, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
2. Wikipedia: SIG SG 530
  • service status
    The SIG SG 530 was a prototype Swiss assault rifle developed in the 1960s by Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft and Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta to fire the then-new M193 ball and M196 tracer 5
  • Caliber attribute (sig-sg-530)
    The SIG SG 530 was a prototype Swiss assault rifle developed in the 1960s by Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft and Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta to fire the then-new M193 ball and M196 tracer 5.56x45mm NATO military rounds.
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