![]() ![]() Located mid-length on the flash hider is a cut-out with a ring retainer spring that secures a rifle grenade to the barrel. Internally the flash suppressor features threading at the muzzle used to screw-in a blank firing attachment. ![]() ![]() These ports are placed asymmetrically around the circumference of the flash hider and stabilize the weapon during continuous fire. The flash hider has a slight taper at the front that supports a bayonet and a little further to the rear – six side ports arranged in pairs. The flash hider can be used to mount and launch rifle grenades. The barrel's external profile (from the breech to the front sight base) is identical to the Tantal's barrel, but the length from the foresight base has a visible tapered contour with a decreasing diameter towards the muzzle end, used to mount a flash suppressor. The 457 mm-long barrel, has six right-hand grooves and a 228 mm (1:9 in) twist rate. With an adapter, it can use M16 NATO standard magazine. The Beryl's design layout and system of operation are similar to those of the Tantal rifle, and the principal differences, resulting primarily from using a different cartridge, include the following components: the barrel, receiver housing, buttstock, foregrip, muzzle device, sight system and magazine. ![]() Design Ħth Airborne Brigade paratrooper equipped with the Beryl rifle, NATO exercise Swift Response, Until 2002/2003 they were equipment of a special forces unit SOJ Aitvaras, operating in Afghanistan. 96A Mini Beryls are used by Lithuania (donated in May 2000 by Poland, including 10 rifles with Pallad grenade launcher and 10 rifles with CWL-1 scope with integrated laser rangefinder). On May 25, 2016, FB "Łucznik" Radom announced an order from the Polish Army for 26,000 Beryls and Mini-Beryls, though did not break it down by system. In 2011, there were more than 45,000 in the inventory, accounting for about half of the assault rifles in the Polish Army. The Beryl subsequently became the standard Polish rifle. In 1997 the weapon had been successfully evaluated and adopted into service as the 5,56 mm karabinek szturmowy wz. The new weapon's specifications were approved in February 1995 and in December the same year, a prototype production batch consisting of 11 Beryl rifles was produced. 74 Pallad grenade launcherĭevelopment work on a new service rifle (both a standard and carbine variant) adapted to use the intermediate 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge had been undertaken in 1995, however a functioning 5.56 mm rifle and carbine variant had already been available in Radom since 1991, known as the wz. ![]()
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