{"id":1942,"date":"2018-09-18T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:59:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:59:48","slug":"a-cartridge-in-brief-4-85-x-49-mm-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/18\/a-cartridge-in-brief-4-85-x-49-mm-british\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cartridge in Brief: 4.85 \u00d7 49 mm British"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" src=\"http:\/\/surplused.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/485fig2-1-3-1024x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/485fig2-1-3-1024x442.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/surplused.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/485fig2-1-3-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/surplused.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/485fig2-1-3-768x332.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"> Since the adoption of the 7.62 \u00d7 51 mm cartridge by NATO in 1954, it has  been criticised for its substantial recoil impulse, which many argued  resulted in uncontrollable automatic fire from service rifles of the  period. This problem was not unique to the 7.62 \u00d7 51 mm cartridge, and  other full-power rifle cartridges imposed similar limitations. Even the  ill-fated British <a href=\"http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/british-janson-e-m-2-automatic-rifle\/\">Janson E.M.2. self-loading rifle,<\/a> chambered for the lighter and perhaps \u2018more intermediate\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/a-cartridge-in-brief-280-british\/\">.280 British (7 \u00d7 43 mm) cartridge <\/a>was  prone to stiff recoil in automatic fire. Contrary to their earlier  stated desires, the British adopted a slightly-modified semi-automatic  variant of the FN Herstal FAL as the L1A1 SLR (Self-Loading Rifle) in  1957. Chambered for the 7.62 NATO cartridge, The L1A1 SLR was considered  by some to be too powerful, heavy, and long for the modern battlefield  and the demands of mechanised warfare. Despite not possessing automatic  fire capability, stiff recoil still inhibited rapid follow-up shots. On  top of these concerns, &nbsp;the British Army had found that by 1970, the SLR  was becoming expensive to produce and difficult to maintain.<br><br>Continue reading:  <a href=\"http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/a-cartridge-in-brief-4-85-x-49-mm-british\/\">A Cartridge in Brief: 4.85 \u00d7 49 mm British<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the adoption of the 7.62 \u00d7 51 mm cartridge by NATO in 1954, it has been criticised for its substantial recoil impulse, which many argued resulted in uncontrollable automatic fire from service rifles of the period. This problem was not unique to the 7.62 \u00d7 51 mm cartridge, and other full-power rifle cartridges imposed&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/18\/a-cartridge-in-brief-4-85-x-49-mm-british\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Cartridge in Brief: 4.85 \u00d7 49 mm British<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,89,60,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author","category-content","category-text","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}