Walt Langendorfer
| Walt Langendorfer | |
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| 🏳️ Nationality |  United States |
| 💼 Occupation | Inventor |
| Known for | Designing a gas piston system for the AR-15 rifle |
Walt Langendorfer, from Rhino International Inc, was an American inventor. He designed a gas piston system to convert the AR-15 (M16) rifle to a more reliable operating system than the standard direct impingement system.
More recently, the U.S. Asymmetric Warfare Group purchased the Gas-Operated HK416, an M4/M16-type rifle made by Heckler & Koch, using the short-stroke gas piston system after intensive tests demonstrated this system's superiority in adverse conditions (dust, sand, intensive use without maintenance). Many new gas piston systems are being proposed by U.S. companies. All can be traced back to the Armalite AR18, which was already an AR-15 competitor and used such a system in the 1950s.
References
- United States Patent Office, Patent number 4,244,273, January 13, 1981
- SWAT Magazine 1986/4 Staff Report. Test of Rhino M16 and AR 15 Conversions, pages 64, 65, 66, 67
- Army Times http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/12/army_carbine_dusttest_071217/
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