X-Nico

unusual facts about Cartridge



.280 British

It seemed that the British designers had accomplished their goals, and proceeded to introduce the cartridge to their NATO allies.

The adoption of the 7.62×51mm NATO round and the adaptation of the intermediate cartridge CETME (later developed into the G3) and FN FAL designs to fire it, produced rifles that were relatively longer and heavier and had greater recoil.

.280 Ross

Rimless cartridge, is an approximately 7mm bullet diameter rifle round developed in Canada by F.W. Jones as a consultant to Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet, and his Ross Rifle Company of Quebec, Canada for use as a Canadian military cartridge as a replacement for the .303

.376 Steyr

Steyr Mannlicher has also produced a conventional-style rifle to use this cartridge, dubbed the "Pro Hunter."

.400 Jeffery Nitro Express

The longer neck of the .450/400 3¼ inch case had been causing extraction difficulties in the Nitro Express version of that cartridge particularly in rifles which may have pitting or rusting.

.458 SOCOM

The .45 Professional was ruled out because in an interview with industry press, the developer of said cartridge stated that steel proprietary to General Motors was used in the bolts and extensions to withstand the high operating pressures.

.460 Weatherby Magnum

The Makah people of the Pacific Northwest have used this rifle cartridge for decades hunting whales.

.475 Linebaugh

Linebaugh is an extremely potent rimmed revolver cartridge developed by John Linebaugh in the late 1980s.

.577/450 Martini-Henry

The cartridge was most famously employed by British forces during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879—which included the Battle of Isandlwana and the Battle of Rorke's Drift—as well as during the Sudanese Campaign of 1884–1898, and in various other colonial conflicts in Africa and India.

.950 JDJ

JDJ is a large caliber rifle cartridge developed by J. D. Jones of SSK Industries.

6.5×55mm

The 6.5×55mm cartridge was used by Norway in the Krag-Jørgensen bolt action rifle and in the Madsen machine gun, as well as in several prototype self-loading rifles.

6mm Lee Navy

Issued to both naval armed guards (bluejackets) and Marine battalions, the 6mm Lee Navy cartridge saw combat service with U.S. forces (primarily Marine riflemen and machine-gun teams) in both Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish–American War, and was also issued to small formations of attached Cuban rebels participating in the Guantánamo Bay campaign.

7.62×51mm NATO

The 7.62×51mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 7.62 NATO) is a rifle cartridge developed in the 1950s as a standard for small arms among NATO countries.

8×56mmR

The updated cartridge coincided with an update to the Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle in which the barrel length was reduced and the chamber re-cut to accept the new cartridge, and was the cartridge chosen by Hungary for the 35M rifle as a replacement for the Mannlicher M1895.

9×18mm Makarov

During the latter half of the 20th Century it was a standard military pistol cartridge of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, analogous to the 9×19mm Parabellum in NATO and Western military use.

9×19mm Parabellum

The MP-443 Grach and GSh-18 pistols and PP-19-01, PP-90M1 and PP-2000 submachine guns were designed for usage with this overpressure cartridge.

9×57mm Mauser

This calibre was popular as a large-deer cartridge in Germany and Central Europe; and also in German spheres of influence in Africa in the early 20th century, such as German West Africa and German East Africa, where it was widely popular among European farmers and settlers for shooting plains game.

Acornsoft

L06 Logo (BBC 1983, Electron ROM cartridge 1985)

Air-Sea War – Battle

Air-Sea War and Battle are two games that were released together as the fourth cartridge in the official Magnavox/Philips line of games for the Philips Videopac (also known as the Magnavox Odyssey²).

Atari System

Early System 1 boards and cartridge boards used large numbers of 7400 series TTL chips.

Automatic pistol

Semi-automatic pistol, a type of self-loading handgun that can be fired in semi-automatic mode, firing one cartridge for each pull of the trigger.

Broadcast Electronics

Founded in 1959 in Silver Spring, Maryland, BE initially manufactured only endless loop cartridge "cart" machines for audio.

Buffalo gun

Buffalo rifle, a later, often breechloading cartridge rifle during the period of commercial buffalo hunting

Cartridge World

In 2006, Cartridge World headquarters relocated from Adelaide, South Australia to Emeryville, California, USA.

In 2003, the first United States Cartridge World franchise was awarded in Orlando, Florida.

Deadly Towers

It is a pun of the word mashō (魔性), meaning "devilishness", and in keeping with this theme, the Japanese cartridge contained a red LED at the top which illuminated when turned on.

Dragunov sniper rifle

In 1962, the state armory in Izhevsk developed the Medved (Bear) rifle, initially chambered first in the 9x53mm cartridge and later in the 7.62x51mm NATO round for export.

Drugfire

Drugfire (written DRUGFIRE) is a multimedia database imaging system that automates the comparison of images of bullet cartridge cases, shell casings and bullets that was developed by MSI(Mnemonic System Inc.).

Fast loader

A few commercial fast loaders, most notably CMD's JiffyDOS, were not cartridge-driven but instead replaced the KERNAL ROM in the C64 and the DOS ROM in the 1541.

Fidelipac

Unlike the later consumer-marketed 8-track cartridge developed later in 1964 by Bill Lear which had the pinch roller integrated in the cartridge, the Fidelipac cartridge had a hole in the right-hand bottom front corner of the cartridge, where the pinch roller, built into the player instead, would swing up into place to support the tape up against the capstan.

Fire extinguisher

In 1928, DuGas (later bought by ANSUL) came out with a cartridge-operated dry chemical extinguisher, which used sodium bicarbonate specially treated with chemicals to render it free-flowing and moisture-resistant.

Four boxes

Four boxes of liberty, the concept that liberty rests on four boxes: soap, ballot, jury and cartridge

J. D. Jones

The second is his "Whisper" family of cartridges, intended to cause maximum damage at subsonic speeds, making them nearly silent when used with a firearm silencer.

Journey to the Planets

In the cartridge version, "Anchors Aweigh" continues to play, which is the song used throughout the game.

Kitchen Table International

Several years after the company demonstrated its Reverse LPRINT command, which allowed a dot-matrix printer to function as a scanner (the demo was actually a videotape run backwards, showing sheets of text feeding into a printer and coming out blank after they’d been “scanned”), Thunderware introduced the Thunderscan scanner, which replaced the ribbon cartridge of an Apple ImageWriter with a scanning module.

Leader Dynamics Series T2 MK5

The Leader T2 MK5 Series weapons were chambered for the 5.56x45mm NATO cartridge and manufactured by Leader Dynamics of Smithfield, NSW, Australia (1978-1982/1983).

M249 light machine gun

A month later, Frankford Arsenal decided upon two cartridge designs for the new LMG: a 6 mm cartridge and a new 5.56 mm cartridge with a much larger case.

Mega Kid MK-1000

In its box is contained a Famicom cartridge containing several NES applications that work with the keyboard, such as crude word processors, keyboard exercises, mathematical games, G-BASIC and a handful of first generation NES games such as F-1 Race, Track & Field and "Jewel Tetris".

Multicart

Although most commonly associated with NES and SNES, multicarts, both authorized and unauthorized, have appeared for many cartridge-based systems, among them the Atari 2600, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Game Boy.

National Arms Company

Colt continued to produce the .41 rimfire derringer after the acquisition as an effort to break into the metallic cartridge gun market.

Pattern 1913 Enfield

This experience prompted the War Office to develop its own "magnum" round in 1910, using a .276 calibre rimless cartridge.

Pedersen rifle

Some writers have implied that the Pedersen rifle was effectively killed by Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur’s decision to require use of the .30-06 cartridge for the standard semiautomatic rifle.

Rick Dangerous

Later it was released with two other games — Stunt Car Racer and Microprose Soccer on the Commodore 64 Powerplay 64 cartridge.

SAKO

After several organizational shifts in state ownership, the SAKO name remained for the privately owned gun- and cartridge-producing company located in the cities of Riihimäki and Jyväskylä (former Valmet factory in Tourula, which was later closed).

Steyr Mannlicher M1901

According to the Steyr factory records this arm, patented in 1898, was originally introduced as the "Model 1900" and used a special 8 mm cartridge.

Sun-1

½-inch 9-track reel-to-reel tape drives and QIC-02 ¼-inch cartridge tape drives were also added to the offering.

The Better Sex

Only this time, under the title Who's Bluffing Who? hosted by Ulrika Jonsson and Richard Cartridge.

Video tape recorder

The development of the videocassette followed the replacement by cassette of other open-reel systems in consumer items: the Stereo-Pak 4-track audio cartridge in 1962, the compact audio cassette and Instamatic film cartridge in 1963, the 8-track cartridge in 1965, and the Super 8 home movie cartridge in 1966.

Zastava M 98/48

The Zastava M98/48 (often called Mod.98/48, Model. 98/48, Yugo K98) was a refurbished bolt action rifle, chambered for the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge that was temporary adopted in the years after WWII by the Yugoslav People's Army.


see also