Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk

Kongsberg chamber loader rifle

Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk ( Kongsberg Arms Factory ) was a former state-owned company in Norway founded in 1814. Among other things, the company manufactured the Kammerlader rifle, the Krag-Jørgensen rifle and the Krag-Petersson rifle. After breaking the CoCom guidelines, the company was dissolved in 1987. The defense area was taken over by the Norsk Forsvarsteknologi , which later renamed itself to the Kongsberg Group.

literature

Erling Popperud, Streiftog gjennom Kongsberg Våpenfabrikks historie , (Norwegian) on the company's history, 1980, published by TRYKK
John Walter, Rifles of the World Verlag Krause Publications, 3rd Edition, 2006, page 219, ISBN 978-0-89689-241-5 ( available online )

Individual evidence

↑ Kongsberg chamber loader rifles (Norway accessed on February 16, 2010)
↑ History of Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk, official manufacturer's website ( Memento from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 16, 2010)

Web links

Commons : Guns from Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Kongsberg Gruppen (Engl.)

[1] Kongsberg chamber loader rifles (Norway accessed on February 16, 2010)

[2] History of Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk, official manufacturer's website ( Memento from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 16, 2010)