The EM1 was an experimental British rifle developed in the late 1940s, and was definitely the high-tech wonder rifle of its day. It was a bullpup-style design before that was a trend, and used a roller locking action take right from the fancy German arms captured during and after WWII.

The EM-2, also known as Rifle, No.9, Mk.1 or Janson rifle, was a British assault rifle. It was briefly adopted by British forces in 1951, but the decision was overturned very shortly thereafter by Winston Churchill's incoming government in an effort to secure NATO standardisation of small arms and ammunition.

Jul 20, 2017 · The weapon was known as the EM-2 or “Rifle Number 9” during its brief formal adoption period. The weapon featured three main concepts that may just grace the next fully modern service rifle. The EM-2 was a bullpup weapon, it had an excellent intermediate loading in the home-grown .280 British, and included a fixed 1x power optic to increase ...

It was a bullpup select-fire rifle with a carrying handle and integral optical scope, a trait shared with the competing EM-2 rifle. The EM-1 was designed to be adaptable to multiple combat scenarios; it could be used as an assault weapon, a marksman rifle or a support weapon.

Jul 6, 2017 · The EM-1 was one of the British post-WWII rifle development projects with the ambitious goal of replacing both the infantry rifle and the submachine gun with a single select-fire weapon optimized for combat within 600 meters (as opposed to the prior doctrine of 1000m effective ranges).

Jul 6, 2017 · As per this latest thinking, Thorpe’s E.M.1 was given a drastic redesign into a bullpup weapon chambered for .280 calibre, although no details or images of the original, conventionally-configured prototype survive. This redesign might explain the incredibly complicated trigger mechanism, of which more later.

May 25, 2012 · The EM1 was an experimental British rifle developed in the late 1940s, and was definitely the high-tech wonder rifle of its day. It was a bullpup-style design before that was a trend, and used a roller locking action take right from …

Jun 29, 2017 · This experimental British light machine gun or automatic rifle was developed from 1945 – 1947 under the auspices of the British Armament Design Establishment (ADE), based at the former Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield in North London.

It is not generally known that the original designation for the RSAF bull-pup design was as the Enfield Rifle No.9. It was soon realised that this nomenclature had already informally been put into use, so the obvious progression was to award the next number, for Enfield Rifle No.10.

Feb 17, 2023 · Work on the Korsac E.M.1 ceased in May 1947, but much of the design carried forward into a new bullpup assault rifle designed to fire a new ‘ideal’ calibre cartridge. This emerged later that same year, and would become known as the Janson E.M.2. Confusingly, the Thorpe E.M.1 bullpup rifle was not designed until the following year.