Many carbines are shortened versions of full rifles, firing the same ammunition at a lower velocity due to a shorter barrel length.

Carbines were usually less accurate and less powerful than the longer muskets ( and later rifles ) of the infantry, due to a shorter sight plane and lower velocity of bullets fired from the shortened barrel.

The United Kingdom also developed a " Jungle Carbine " version of their Lee-Enfield service rifle, featuring a shorter barrel, flash suppressor, and manufacturing modifications designed to decrease the rifle's weight.

With no need of a long barrel to fire full-power ammunition, a shorter barrel could be used.

By the 1990s, the US had adopted the M4 carbine, a derivative of the M16 family which fired the same 5. 56mm cartridge but was lighter and shorter ( in overall length and barrel length ), resulting in marginally reduced range and power.

It gave a chamber pressure of 40000 lbf / in² ( 276 MPa ), which resulted in a muzzle velocity of 609. 6 m / s ( 2000 ft / s ) in the rifles, and 597. 4 m / s ( 1960 ft / s ) from the shorter barrel of the carbines.

A shorter length made a handier weapon in which tight-fitting balls did not have to be rammed so far down the barrel.

After the turn of the century, Switzerland, Britain, and the United States adopted rifles with barrel lengths shorter than that of a rifle, but longer than that of a carbine.

Obviously this is more practical on pistols because of the shorter barrel length.

This permits a shorter firearm length for the same barrel length for improved maneuverability, and reduces weight.

Unlike conventional carbines, which are generally a version of a parent rifle with a shorter barrel ( like the earlier. 30-40 U. S. Krag rifle and carbine and the later M16 rifle and M4 carbine ), the M1 carbine has only one minor part in common with the M1 rifle ( a short buttplate screw ) and fires a different cartridge.

In this system, the barrel is mounted on rails on which it can recoil to the rear, and the recoil is taken up by a cylinder which is similar in operation to an automotive gas-charged shock absorber, and is commonly visible as a cylinder mounted parallel to the barrel of the gun, but shorter and smaller than it.

# Any shotgun larger than 12 gauge or with a barrel shorter than 25 inches.

The most popular and effective solution to the multiple gun requirement is a two barrel, over & under shotgun, commonly a 12 gauge with a mechanical trigger, which can accept full length machined tubes or shorter chamber inserts, which permit the gun to shoot all gauges and the. 410 bore.

Post-war, two M26 tanks had the T54 gun installed, which had the same long gun barrel, but the ammunition cartridge was designed to be shorter and fatter, while still retaining the propellant force of the original round.

* Shortened barrel, which includes the shorter carbine gas system.

However, there have been some criticisms of the carbine, such as lower muzzle velocities and louder report due to the shorter barrel, additional stress on parts because of the shorter gas system, and a tendency to overheat faster than the M16A2.

This was followed by the RPzB 54 / 1 with an improved rocket, shorter barrel and a range increased to about 180 meters.

In August 1944 the BL-8 gun was replaced with the improved 152. 4 mm BL-10 ( БЛ-10 ) long barrel gun, with a slightly shorter barrel of 7392 mm ( 48. 5 calibers ).

As further testing revealed that the M1906 cartridge was effective with a shorter, all-purpose barrel length of in length, the decision was made to issue the Springfield with a 24 " barrel length to both cavalry and infantry forces, an idea already adopted by both the British and German armies.

Most of the European parties eventually came around to the arguments made by the Americans, but France and a few others held out for a shorter cell length.

The two upper steps were made of eight shorter but similarly shaped stones, and on top was an octagonal block about three feet high with a cross fixed upon it.

An example used is " oeufs au plat Meyerbeer ", the prior system would take up to fifteen minutes to prepare the dish, while in the new system, the eggs would be prepared by the entremettier, kidney grilled by the rôtisseur, truffle sauce made by the saucier and thus the dish could be prepared in a shorter time and served quickly in the popular restaurants.

The second part is much shorter, and was made to meet the distributor's demand for a sex change film.

The high power of pulses from the cavity magnetron made centimeter-band radar practical, with shorter wavelength radars allowing detection of smaller objects.

The savannah zone's three categories are divided into mm ' Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, made up of plains of tall grass which are interrupted by trees, the most common across the country ; Sudan savannah, similar but with shorter grasses and shorter trees ; and Sahel savannah patches of grass and sand, found in the northeast.

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of Vatican II, in October 2011, the Vatican's website and many other Catholic news organizations announced that the Pope Benedict XVI, had made the period from October 2012 to the end of November 2013 ( the Solemnity of Christ the King ) a " Year Of Faith " in a solemn declaration, and ordered all parishes and religious institutions to find some manner during that Year of celebrating and reaffirming the Creed ( there are now two main Creeds-the shorter Apostle's Creed and the lengthier Niceno-Constantopolitan, or Nicene Creed.

Some trucks are made with only six tires these trucks are normally use for shorter trailers or for day cab trucks.

As the more complex sound signal is broken into the smaller sub-sounds, different levels are created, where at the top level we have complex sounds, which are made of simpler sounds on lower level, and going to lower levels even more, we create more basic and shorter and simpler sounds.

A sweeter, less-alcoholic version called berz, aged for a shorter time, is also made.

Some changes included increasing the minimum ski length and also the sidecut which makes the ski turn less tightly. In 2008 ski lengths were increased as it was found by physiotherapists that the shorter skis combined with the constant knee jerking movements were considered unnecessarily harmful to racers knees due to the turning radius of the skis ( especially the slalom skis ) therefore the F. I. S made the minimum ski length for women in slalom 155 cm and men 165 cm.

Many naturally-occurring radioisotopes ( another 51 or so, for a total of about 339 ) exhibit still shorter half-lives than 80 million years, but they are made freshly, as daughter products of decay processes of primordial nuclides ( for example, radium from uranium ) or from ongoing energetic reactions, such as cosmogenic nuclides produced by present bombardment of Earth by cosmic rays ( for example, carbon-14 made from nitrogen ).

In Vietnam, there is a popular food item called mắm, which is made the same way as fish sauce, except that both the fish and the liquid extract, not just the liquid, are kept, and mắm is fermented for a shorter period than fish sauce.

New school artists made shorter songs that could more easily gain radio play, and more cohesive LPs than their old school counterparts.

Although the Hammond L-100 with its shorter manuals is considered a " poor man's " Hammond, Emerson not only played much of the early Nice music on his L-100, but also made good use of some of its unique features which his bigger Hammond C-3 does not provide.

Their barks, high-pitched and shorter than those made by males, are used in aggressive situations.

The courses are made up of 30-minute daily sessions and shorter reading lessons.

Eitri succeeded in making the golden boar Gullinbursti, the golden ring Draupnir, and the hammer Mjöllnir that made his brother win the bet, even if its handle was shorter than it should have been.

A much shorter animated version of the poem and film was made as an episode of The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, with the ultra-myopic Mister Magoo in the title role.

Through the observations he made in the following year, Richer determined that the clock was 2½ minutes per day slower than at Paris, or equivalently the length of a pendulum with a swing of one second there was 1¼ Paris lines, or 2. 6 mm, shorter than at Paris.

In his ' Memorandum of a Programme for Social Reform ' sent to Salisbury in 1894, Chamberlain made a number of suggestions, including old age pensions, the provision of loans to the working class for the purchase of houses, an amendment to the Artisans ' Dwellings Act to encourage street improvements, compensation for industrial accidents, cheaper train fares for workers, tighter border controls and shorter working hours.