Artillerie-Inrichtingen was a Dutch state-owned artillery, small arms, and munitions company which also produced machine tools and was founded in 1679 in Delft, Netherlands. The company was split in 1973 with its defense related businesses becoming Eurometaal and its civilian manufacturing becoming Hembrug Machine Tools. During its years of operation as Artillerie Inrichtingen, the company manufactured armaments and an array of other industrial outputs for the Dutch Army and the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL).
17th Century Delft, Netherlands
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Artillerie Inrichtingen workers at the Hembrug plant use lathes to turn projectiles in the production of 75mm naval artillery shells Zaandam, Netherlands, 1912.
70MM Cannon Production, 1921.
The ArmaLite AR-10 is a 7.62×51mm NATO battle rifle designed by Eugene Stoner in the late 1950s and manufactured by ArmaLite. When first introduced in 1956, the AR-10 used an innovative combination of a straight-line barrel/stock design with phenolic composite, a new patent-filed gas-operated bolt and carrier system and forged alloy parts resulting in a small arm significantly easier to control in automatic fire and over 1 lb (0.45 kg) lighter than other infantry rifles of the day. Over its production life, the original AR-10 was built in relatively small numbers, with fewer than 10,000 rifles assembled. However, the ArmaLite AR-10 would become the progenitor for a wide range of firearms.
Close-up of ArmaLite AR-10 with Artillerie Inrichtingen (A.I.) markings
Close-up of flash Suppressor/compensator on early "Hollywood" model AR-10
AR-10 Sudanese model (top) over an AR-15 successor model (center)
Portuguese paratroopers with AR-10 flash hiders visible.
