{"id":2169,"date":"2018-06-06T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:06:36","slug":"a-cartridge-in-brief-280-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/06\/a-cartridge-in-brief-280-british\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cartridge in Brief: .280 British"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/surplused.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/280EXTRAPHOTO-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">During the Second World War, Germany developed a number of innovative small arms. One key development \u2013 the&nbsp;<em>Sturmgewehr<\/em>, chambered for the 7.92 \u00d7 33 mm&nbsp;<em>Kurz<\/em>&nbsp;cartridge \u2013 is rightly considered the grandfather of the modern \u2018assault rifle\u2019. The concept behind the assault rifle was a box magazine-fed, select-fire rifle chambered for an intermediate cartridge. It was to be effective within confined spaces, and out to 400 meters. Studies and experience from the Second World War and earlier had shown that most rifle combat was taking place at closer ranges than expected; the assault rifle would prove effective by allowing for controllable automatic fire, whilst reducing the weight and bulk of the cartridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/a-cartridge-in-brief-280-british\/\">A Cartridge in Brief: .280 British<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Second World War, Germany developed a number of innovative small arms. One key development \u2013 the&nbsp;Sturmgewehr, chambered for the 7.92 \u00d7 33 mm&nbsp;Kurz&nbsp;cartridge \u2013 is rightly considered the grandfather of the modern \u2018assault rifle\u2019. The concept behind the assault rifle was a box magazine-fed, select-fire rifle chambered for an intermediate cartridge. It was&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/06\/a-cartridge-in-brief-280-british\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Cartridge in Brief: .280 British<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2171,"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":[43,40,41,45,44,42,46],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author","category-content","category-text","category-article","tag-43","tag-280-30","tag-assault-rifle","tag-cartridge","tag-e-m-2","tag-fn-herstal","tag-imi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9096,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/9096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}