NATO Standardizes FN’s 5.7x28mm Caliber

[The Heretic]

NATO Standardizes FN's 5.7x28mm Caliber | FN® Firearms

NATO Standardizes FN’s 5.7x28mm Caliber (McLean, VA – March 1, 2021) FN America, LLC is pleased to announce that the FN-designed 5.7x28mm caliber has been standardized by NATO. The caliber was designed in the late 1980s for use with the FN P90® and FN Five-seveN® pistol. With almost three...

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[3MTA3]

Interesting that FN claims to have designed the 7.62x51 and 5.56x45 in the press release. Wonder if Winchester and Remington know this?

 

[Knobgoblin]

Is this like when comic book movies went mainstream, bigtime? And all the nerdy dudes who were into DC and Marvel felt vindicated and cool?

I'm ribbing you of course

 

[Nosferatu]

Interesting that FN claims to have designed the 7.62x51 and 5.56x45 in the press release. Wonder if Winchester and Remington know this?

FN did actually create the 5.56x45mm in the '70's, using the .223 Rem as the parent case.

The 308/7.62x51 is a bit more convoluted. FN developed the 7.62x51 from the .300 Savage, with quite a few revisions before it was introduced then NATOized. At the same general time, Winchester created the .308 Winchester for the sporting market, using one of the 7.62x51 case revisions.

They are technically correct in the PR.

 

[Stomper]

Interesting that FN claims to have designed the 7.62x51 and 5.56x45 in the press release. Wonder if Winchester and Remington know this?

Is this like when comic book movies went mainstream, bigtime? And all the nerdy dudes who were into DC and Marvel felt vindicated and cool?

I'm ribbing you of course

FN must have a massive amount of 40yr old virgins working for them from their moms' basements.

 

[Lennie]

FN now owns Winchester.
The U.S. Repeating Arms Company went defunct in 1989, with the rights to the Winchester name first purchased by a French holding company and then by FN Herstal. The New Haven plant was closed on 31 March 2006 after 140 years of producing arms and has since been converted into a residential area.

I think FN feels that owning Winchester gives them the rights to these claims.

And if you google who developed the 5.56 round, this is the response

FN Herstal

The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, fyv-FYV-six) is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal

 

[Nosferatu]

FN now owns Winchester.
The U.S. Repeating Arms Company went defunct in 1989, with the rights to the Winchester name first purchased by a French holding company and then by FN Herstal. The New Haven plant was closed on 31 March 2006 after 140 years of producing arms and has since been converted into a residential area.

I think FN feels that owning Winchester gives them the rights to these claims.

And if you google who developed the 5.56 round, this is the response

FN Herstal

The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, fyv-FYV-six) is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal

Olin owns Winchester Ammunition.

FN Owns Winchester Arms (US Repeating Arms).

 

[CountryGent]

Très bien.

 

[Knobgoblin]

 

[No_Regerts]

Winchester and Remington legitimized these cartridges under SAAMI. Doesn't mean they created them.

 

[bcp]

Some history of the development of the T65 family of cartridges at Frankford Arsenal.

Understanding the pre-NATO Cal .30 Light Rifle Cartridges

Even seasoned collectors of US Military often get confused when trying to ID and catalog the pre-NATO Cal .30 Light Rifle cartridges. Here’s a quick guide that may help. Be aware that this is very basic and does not account for all the twists and turns in the development of this cartridge...

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Here are the versions FN designed for Belgium, that were adopted by NATO.

Engineering:7.62×51mm NATO - HandWiki

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Bruce