The concerns about recoil and effectiveness were effectively overruled by the US within NATO, and the other NATO nations accepted that standardization was more important at the time than selection of the ideal cartridge. 280 round, including developing a version of the FN FAL in. The FN company had also been involved in the development of the. 280 inch (7 mm) cartridge when the selection of the 7.62×51mm NATO was made. The British had extensive evidence with their own experimentation with intermediate cartridges since 1945 and were on the point of adopting a. At the time of selection, there had been criticism that the 7.62×51mm NATO was too powerful for lightweight modern service rifles, causing excessive recoil, and that as a result it did not allow for sufficient automatic rate of fire from hand-held weapons in modern combat. In 1953, the 7.62×51mm NATO rifle cartridge was selected as the first standard NATO rifle cartridge. The 7.62×51mm NATO and 5.56×45mm NATO cartridges compared to an AA battery. It is derived from, but is not identical to, the. Under STANAG 4172, it is a standard cartridge for NATO forces as well as many non-NATO countries. It consists of the SS109, SS110, and SS111 cartridges. The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO) is an intermediate cartridge family developed in Belgium by FN Herstal. Source(s): NATO EPVAT testing, QuickLOAD, SAAMI, C.I.P.

NATO, Japan, South Korea, other major non-NATO allies 5.56×45mm NATO with measurement, left to right: projectile, empty case, complete round with projectile in case

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