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Arms

On this page you find a photo of every type of arms in use with the Netherlands armed forces.

Colt C7/C8 rifle. Glock 17-pistol (9mm). A commando with the Accuracy anti-personnel sniper rifle (7.62mm) in Mali by night, 2015. Barrett anti-materiel rifle (12.7mm). A diver-commando (Commando Corps - Korps Commandotroepen) with a HK416 assault rifle. Mossberg shotgun M-590. Browning M2 machine gun (12.7mm, QCB - quick change barrel). Marines fire with a MAG during an exercise. An airmobile infantryman fires it's Minimi belt-fed machinegun (5.56mm) in an old brick factory, 2014. Infantryman behind an automatic grenade launcher (40mm) on a Mercedes Benz all-terrain vehicle during an exercise on the French training ground La Courtine, 2015. M72A3 LAW (light anti-tank weapon). A marine is about to fire a Panzerfaust 3 short-range anti-tank weapon. A Gill anti-tank rocket is being fired at the heavy weapons range at Camp Holland, Afghanistan 2009. Soldiers fire a 81mm mortar. The Dutch military owns also 60- and 120mm mortars. Launch of Patriot PAC II air defense missile. Launch of an Amraam (advanced medium range air-to-air missile) from the Army Ground Based Air Defence System, Kreta 2013. Stinger air defence missile. In this case mounted on a Fennek armoured reconnaissance vehicle (Stinger Weapon Platform), Kreta 2013. Laser guided bomb on a F-16. Fighter aircraft carry different types of bombs, rockets and a 6-barrel M61A1 Vulcan 20mm canon (F-16) or a 4-barrel GAU-22 25mm Gatling gun (F-35). An Apache AH64D attack helicopter is equipped with Hellfire heavy anti-armour rockets, Hydra 70mm rockets and a Hughes M239 30mm chain gun.