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The 7.62x51mm NATO was originally developed by [[wikipedia:NATO|NATO]], an organization of national governments, in the middle of the 20th century. It was developed to be reliable when used in fully automatic weapons, to have a large punch, and to standardize round size between governments. It replaced a variety of smaller ammunition and largely achieved the goals of development. It is a full-power rifle round in the 20th century, and is fairly common in machine guns and sniper rifles, but not in lightweight assault rifles like the MA5 series because of intense recoil. Its ineffectiveness in individual infantry weapons led to ~~the adoption of~~ the adoption of the [[wikipedia:5.56x45mm NATO|5.56x45mm NATO]] round, due to better controllability and the ability to fit it into small, lightweight assault weapons. It is not known why the 5.56x45mm NATO round disappears in the ''Halo'' universe, but it could be possible that weapons technology advanced so much as to fit enough recoil control systems on a firearm to allow this powerful round be used as an infantry rifle round (the same could apply to the [[M6 series]]).

The 7.62x51mm NATO was originally developed by [[wikipedia:NATO|NATO]], an organization of national governments, in the middle of the 20th century. It was developed to be reliable when used in fully automatic weapons, to have a large punch, and to standardize round size between governments. It replaced a variety of smaller ammunition and largely achieved the goals of development. It is a full-power rifle round in the 20th century, and is fairly common in machine guns and sniper rifles, but not in lightweight assault rifles like the MA5 series because of intense recoil. Its ineffectiveness in individual infantry weapons led to the adoption of the [[wikipedia:5.56x45mm NATO|5.56x45mm NATO]] round, due to better controllability and the ability to fit it into small, lightweight assault weapons. It is not known why the 5.56x45mm NATO round disappears in the ''Halo'' universe, but it could be possible that weapons technology advanced so much as to fit enough recoil control systems on a firearm to allow this powerful round be used as an infantry rifle round (the same could apply to the [[M6 series]]).

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	The 7.62x51mm NATO was originally developed by [[wikipedia:NATO\|NATO]], an organization of national governments, in the middle of the 20th century. It was developed to be reliable when used in fully automatic weapons, to have a large punch, and to standardize round size between governments. It replaced a variety of smaller ammunition and largely achieved the goals of development. It is a full-power rifle round in the 20th century, and is fairly common in machine guns and sniper rifles, but not in lightweight assault rifles like the MA5 series because of intense recoil. Its ineffectiveness in individual infantry weapons led to ~~the adoption of~~ the adoption of the [[wikipedia:5.56x45mm NATO\|5.56x45mm NATO]] round, due to better controllability and the ability to fit it into small, lightweight assault weapons. It is not known why the 5.56x45mm NATO round disappears in the ''Halo'' universe, but it could be possible that weapons technology advanced so much as to fit enough recoil control systems on a firearm to allow this powerful round be used as an infantry rifle round (the same could apply to the [[M6 series]]).		The 7.62x51mm NATO was originally developed by [[wikipedia:NATO\|NATO]], an organization of national governments, in the middle of the 20th century. It was developed to be reliable when used in fully automatic weapons, to have a large punch, and to standardize round size between governments. It replaced a variety of smaller ammunition and largely achieved the goals of development. It is a full-power rifle round in the 20th century, and is fairly common in machine guns and sniper rifles, but not in lightweight assault rifles like the MA5 series because of intense recoil. Its ineffectiveness in individual infantry weapons led to the adoption of the [[wikipedia:5.56x45mm NATO\|5.56x45mm NATO]] round, due to better controllability and the ability to fit it into small, lightweight assault weapons. It is not known why the 5.56x45mm NATO round disappears in the ''Halo'' universe, but it could be possible that weapons technology advanced so much as to fit enough recoil control systems on a firearm to allow this powerful round be used as an infantry rifle round (the same could apply to the [[M6 series]]).