Carbine - carbine

Japanese: カービン銃 - かーびんじゅう(英語表記)carbine
Carbine - carbine

Traditionally, it referred to a short rifle (carbine in English, Karbine in German) with a shortened barrel of an infantry rifle, and was called a cavalry rifle or a cavalry rifle. In 1941, the U.S. Army commissioned the Winchester Firearms Company to design a new type of lightweight short rifle that was somewhere between an infantry rifle and a submachine gun, moving away from the characteristics of the previous carbine rifle, as an officer's firearm. Since adopting this as the M1 Carbine, the term carbine has come to refer to this type of rifle. Conventional types used the same ammunition as infantry rifles, but the M1 Carbine and later used a unique ammunition that was somewhere between a rifle bullet and a pistol bullet, could be loaded with 15 to 30 rounds, and had an automatic loading mechanism. The M1 Carbine has been widely used in Southeast Asian countries that had equipment provided by the U.S. military since World War II.

[Yoshio Kobashi]

[Reference] | Guns

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

従来は、歩兵銃の銃身を短縮した短小銃(英語でcarbine、ドイツ語でKarbine)をさし、騎兵銃または騎銃とよばれた。1941年にアメリカ陸軍がウィンチェスター銃器会社に依頼して、これまでのカービン銃の性格から離れ、将校用小火器として歩兵銃と短機関銃の中間に存在する新しいタイプの軽量短小銃を設計させ、これをM1カービンとして採用してからは、カービン銃といえばこの種のものをさすようになった。弾薬も在来型は歩兵銃と同じものを使用したが、M1カービンからは小銃弾と拳銃弾の中間で独自のものとなり、15~30発が装填(そうてん)でき、自動装填機構をもつ。M1カービンは第二次世界大戦以来、アメリカ軍供与の装備をもつ東南アジア各国で広く使用された。

[小橋良夫]

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