The Ares Defense Shrike 5.56 is an air cooled, dual-feed weapon that fires the 5.56x45mm NATO cartridge. The Shrike 5.56 can be supplied as a complete weapon, or as a low-risk upper receiver performance upgrade kit to existing M16-type service rifles and carbines. [edit] Overview The Shrike 5.56 has gas-piston operation, a quick-change barrel with fixed headspace and MIL-STD-1913 rail interface for the mounting of accessories. It is select-fire for both semi-automatic and full-automatic engagement of point and area targets and it shares a significant part commonality with both the US M16A4 Rifle and US M4A1 Carbine. It can fire from standard 30-round M16 magazines, 100-round Beta C-Mag drum magazines, and M27-linked SAW ammunition from 100-round soft-pouch and 200-round hard plastic SAW ammunition containers. At 7.5lbs complete weapon weight, the Shrike 5.56 is the lightest rifle caliber belt-fed machine gun in the world.[citation needed] [edit] Civilian Use The manufacturer accepted a limited number of refundable deposits from civilian customers interested in purchasing the Shrike 5.56. While the product has seen production delays and revisions, the products that have been delivered. The original Shrike pre-order price was $2495.[citation needed]
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