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From Beretta's century-long experience, an advanced platform designed to meet the needs of the modern Military and Law Enforcement forces.
Fabbrica dāArmi Pietro Beretta, a leading provider of military equipment, today announced at DSEI exhibition in London the launch of its New Assault Rifle Platform (NARP).
Entirely designed, developed and manufactured in Italy, NARP has been designed to increase and enhance five operational key capabilities: lethality, reliability, ergonomics, modularity and signature reduction.
From the evolution of Beretta's military DNA, new productās design has been inspired by functional genetics, to be a natural extension of users and offer a unique set of features to back and support Military and Law Enforcement forces who operate in complex, high threat environments.
āWe are excited to launch our New Assault Rifle Platform and offer our military customers a product that is specifically designed for their needs,ā said Carlo Ferlito, CEO and GM at Beretta Italy and VP of Beretta Defense Technologies (BDT).
āThanks to close interaction with elite forces, we designed a weapon with unparalleled performance, that marks an important step forward in the evolution not only of Beretta's Defense department, but in the entire defense industry. This product is a valuable tool that can help our customers stay safe and mission-readyā, Mr. Ferlito explains.
NARP is a unique and modern platform, with ergonomics close to AR platforms but embodying battle proven action designed by Beretta, which pushes the boundaries of products performance. Thanks to its reduced weight of 3.3 kg (including empty magazine) and a total length under 90 cm, NARP fits any operator offering fully ambidextrous controls, a set of telescopic, foldable and collapsible stocks, and proprietary grips and buttstocks enabling efficient handling and quick and convenient transitions under all circumstances.
Modularity and versatility make NARP a weapon that can adapt to any action scenario, including the most challenging environments: chassis made of cutting-edge materials and dust cover ensure its excellent performance even in very cold or very hot temperatures and in muddy and dusty scenarios. Through complete control, NARP offers pinpoint accuracy at any distance, ensuring the certainty of hitting the target and completing the mission successfully.
Presented at DSEI in three variants in 5,56 NATO caliber, NARP will be the first step of a completely new portfolio of battle weapons, this including a new assault rifle fitted with a muzzle flash reducer system and an improved thermal signature reduction. Integrated with new Beretta made B-Silent sound suppressor, produced using additive manufacturing technology, the new rifle dramatically reduces soldiersā signature thus increasing their survivability on the battlefield, masking soldiers from detection from sight and hearing.
āWith the NARP program we invested energy and resources in the development of a new assault rifle platform that would enhance soldier capabilities, as required by international protocols and meet their needs for reliability, accuracy and modularity. Projectās tagline āEverlasting Legacy, unmatched performanceā perfectly describes concepts and effort behind this product. This is another example of how we are committed to investing in the most advanced equipment to back our troops on the battlefield,ā declared Mr. Franco Gussalli Beretta, President and CEO of Fabbrica dāArmi and Executive Vice President of Beretta Holding.
āIām enormously proud of what we have achieved: NARP has been a wonderful example of close collaboration with the end user community and strong engagement by industry to deliver game-changing capabilitiesā Mr. Beretta concluded.
Narp: il nuovo fucile dāassalto di Beretta
Si chiama Narp (New assault rifle platform): tuttavia, si tratta piuttosto di una sigla di progetto che contempla una serie di interessanti evoluzioni future. Presentato in 5,56x45 al salone Dsei di Londra, evolverĆ presto anche in altri calibri come il 7,62x51 e non solo
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Narp: Beretta's new assault rifle
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Claudio Bigatti
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12 September 2023
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It's called Narp (New assault rifle platform): Beretta's new assault rifle: however, it is rather a project acronym that contemplates a series of interesting future developments. Presented in 5.56Ć45 at the Dsei show in London, it will soon evolve into other calibers such as 7.62Ć51 and beyond.
āWe are excited to launch our new assault rifle platform and offer our military customers a product specifically designed for their needs,ā commented Beretta CEO and general manager, as well as BDT vice president, Carlo Ferlito at the launch of the weapon at the London show: ā thanks to the close interaction with the elite departments, we have designed a weapon with exceptional performance, which marks an important step forward not only in the evolution of Beretta's defense department, but throughout the defense industry. This product is a valuable tool, which will help our customers be safe and mission ready.ā
The Narp is the result of collaborative and evolutionary approaches with the Italian army through some selected departments, a project based on five basic concepts: ergonomics, reliability, modularity, lethality and reduction of the acoustic and visible "signature". The dynamic exchange of information between the operators and the company's engineering team led to the final version of this new assault rifle: the project, in fact, was born in 2018 and saw some intermediate preliminary prototypes in its development.
To avoid any misunderstanding, we immediately underline that the conformation of the Narp, although it may recall the Ar15 stylistic features (and there is an explanation for this), has a very different and innovative "heart". Let's start immediately with the mechanics: operating system with short-stroke "tappet" type piston, bolt carrier that slides on a steel guide and equipped with an internal return spring (i.e., contained within the upper half-castle), multi-profile rotating bolt. Thanks to the internal return spring, the Narp can be optionally equipped with a folding stock.
The external configuration of the Narp is both a choice of the operators for ergonomic reasons and a careful market choice: the muscle memory does not change compared to the Ar15/M4 platforms widely used among special forces and beyond, there is also compatibility with stocks and grips dedicated to these weapons.
We therefore have an adjustable telescopic stock, completely ambidextrous controls, T-handle with relative closing assistance button (forward assist): the latter, with integrated case deflector, is however removable and replaceable as a whole.
The construction is entirely metallic with two half-castors (upper and lower receiver) in 7075 aluminum alloy hinged together via the classic two through pins (but prisoners: they are extracted from the frame but not completely so as not to lose them), the forend is equipped with M-Lok interfaces for mounting tactical accessories and in the version with 14 inch barrel, equipped with two large side windows to access the throttle adjustment and two positions: normal and with sound moderator inserted. The fore-end is equipped with a quick release system via a side lever: with this removed you access the short-stroke piston system, which can be dismantled without tools; the barrel is fixed to the receiver via side screws, it is easily removable but is not a quick release type.
The Narp is equipped with a wide sight line integrated with a Stanag 4694 rail and equipped with new folding iron sights: windage adjustable sight and with a folding āLā diopter with the classic two openings for close or long range shooting, the front sight is on the pole and adjustable in height and incorporates a new and intuitive target distance evaluation system.
Regarding the reduction of the acoustic (noise) and visible (flash) signatures of the weapon, Beretta has created a new moderator dedicated to Narp in its line of B-Silent sound moderators: made of Inconel 718 with metal additive manufacturing and built internally to reduce any return of gas towards the shooter (back pressure reduction). To reduce the flash when firing, a new open flame hider with three prongs was chosen, equipped at the rear with a quick coupling for the moderator.
The Beretta Narp will be made in different barrel lengths: 7 inches as Pdw/Cqb version also in 7.62Ć35 (.300 Aac Blackout), 11 inches Cqb/Sbr-Short barrel rifle, 14-14.5 inches Carbine, 16 inches Iar-Infantry automatic rifle (i.e. an Lmg-Light machine gun), 18 inches as S-Dmr (Sniper-Designated marksman rifle); the indicated rate of fire is 700 rounds/minute.
Dimensions and weight: with a 14.5 inch (368 mm) long barrel and extendable (non-folding) butt plate, it measures from 806 mm with the stock retracted to 888 mm with the stock extended for a weight with an empty magazine of 3,300 grams.
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