Helped Designed by:The Cossack Republic of Solyhniya(Pic)
Price:2,000 USD, 4,000 marks
Length: 850 mm
Barrel Length: 432 mm
Weight: 4.75 kg
Cailber:7.62x51mm, 6.5x76mm Itailio
Rate of fire: 850 round/min
Action: Long stroke gas piston, BARS
Muzzle Velocity: 860 mp/s
Design and development on the M-2 began in 1987 when the NGIR(New Generation Itailian Rifle) Program was commissioned by the Council of Eight per the request of the Department of Defense after the M16A2 was beginning to show it's age after deployment in Velerian Islands had showed that the weapon was not suited for the tropical climate. Venenzio Arms began development on a assault rifle in the summer of 1987 with the development team headed up by Gerladino Rizzo, one of the companies best designers. Development overlapped into 1990 and then it was stopped with Townsend Enterprises bought out Venenzio Arms as it began to go under due to the lack of sustained income. In 1995, Townsend and Archquest Enterprises ordered the restart of the program with Gerladino being hired by the company and once again designated project lead. In the winter of 1997, Gerladino presented his prototype which he dubbed the M-2 Advanced Assault Rifle and TAE soon released it to the Department of Defense and the Army for testing. In the spring of 1998, the Itailian Army placed an order for seven thousand rifles for testing in the field and ranges. After the NGIR was cancelled in 2001 by the Council of Eight in order to free up budget room, the Army stopped the testing but excellent results were expressed by the soldiers that had used them and TAE continued to develop and improve the design. In 2002, TAE brought on a foreign freelancer who was more inept with bullup designs and their ergonomics and help the team come up with a completely new design. In the spring of 2003, the new and improved M-2 AAR was presented to the Department of Defense who went ahead and made a bulk purchase of twenty thousand rifles which were immediately put into service.
Following the recent and frequent wars the nation was getting into, the Department of Defense formally adopted the M-2 as the service rifle of the Itailian Armed Force in 2004 and had all M16's outphased by the following spring in 2005. The rifle saw heavy action in the May Day War on four different fronts and a total of nearly eighty million of the rifles have been manufactured as of a count in October 2013.