Battle rifle
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A battle rifle is a full-sized service rifle chambered to fire a fully powered cartridge.
M1 Garand
Chauchat-Ribeyrolles 1918
M1 Garand and en-bloc clips
SVT-40
Fully powered cartridge
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A fully powered cartridge, also called full-power cartridge or full-size cartridge, is an umbrella term describing any rifle cartridge that emphasizes ballistics performance and single-shot accuracy,
From left to right: 9×19mm Parabellum (pistol cartridge) 7.92×33mm Kurz (intermediate-power rifle cartridge) 7.92×57mm Mauser (full-power rifle cartridge)
(Left to right) Full-power rifle cartridges: 7.62×54mmR 7.62×51mm NATO Intermediate-power rifle cartridges: 7.62×39mm 5.56×45mm NATO 5.45×39mm