The Lee-Enfield bolt-action magazine-fed repeating rifle was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century. It was the British Army’s standard rifle from its official adoption in 1895 until 1957.A redesign of the Lee-Metford which had been adopted by the British Army in 1888 the Lee-Enfield superseded the earlier Martini-Henry Martini-Enfield and Lee-Metford rifles.
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length (km)
1.1176
weight (kg)
4000.0
origin
United Kingdom
type
Bolt action
used in war
British Empire, Irish Civil War, Korean War, Sino-Indian War, Bangladesh Liberation War, 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Second Boer War, Suez Crisis, World War II, Irish War of Independence, Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Indonesian National Revolution, Soviet war in Afghanistan, World War I, Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts, First Indochina War, Nepalese Civil War, Greek Civil War
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