Desert Eagle

Desert Eagle
Mark XIX Desert Eagle in .50 Action Express with Picatinny rail
Type	Semi-Automatic Pistol
Place of origin	United States Israel (redesign)
Service history
Used by	See Users
Production history
Designer	Magnum Research and Israel Military Industries
Designed	1979–1982
Manufacturer	Magnum Research (2009–current) Magnum Research and Israel Weapon Industries (2005–2009) Israel Military Industries (1998–2005) (1982–1995) Saco Defense (1995–1998)
Produced	1982–present
Variants	Mark I (Introduced in 1983) Mark VII (Introduced in 1990) Mark XIX (Introduced in 1995)
Specifications
Weight	Mark VII 1,766 g (3.9 lb) (.357 MAGNUM) 1,897 g (4.2 lb) (.44 MAGNUM) Mark XIX 1,998.6 g (4.4 lb)
Length	Mark VII 10.6 in (269.2 mm) (6in barrel) Mark XIX 10.75 in (273.1 mm) (6in barrel) 14.75 in (374.6 mm) (10in barrel)
Barrel length	6 in (152.4 mm) 10 in (254.0 mm)

Cartridge	.50 Action Express .44 Magnum .357 Magnum .440 Cor-bon .41 Magnum .357/44 Bain & Davis (IMI prototype only)
Action	Gas-operated, rotating bolt
Muzzle velocity	470 m/s(.50AE)
Maximum firing range	200 m
Feed system	Detachable stick magazine; capacities: 9 rounds (.357) 8 rounds (.41 and .44) 7 rounds (.440 Cor-bon and .50 AE)
Sights	Iron sights and optional optics

Mark VII

Mark XIX

Mark VII

Mark XIX

Detachable stick magazine; capacities:

The IMI Desert Eagle is a semi-automatic handgun notable for chambering the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine fed, self-loading pistol. It has a unique design with a triangular barrel and large muzzle. Magnum Research Inc. (MRI) designed and developed the Desert Eagle. The design was refined and the actual pistols were manufactured by Israel Military Industries until 1995, when MRI shifted the manufacturing contract to Saco Defense in Saco, Maine. In 1998, MRI moved manufacturing back to IMI, which later reorganized under the name Israel Weapon Industries. Since 2009, the Desert Eagle Pistol has been produced in the United States at MRI's Pillager, MN facility.Kahr Arms acquired Magnum Research in the middle of 2010.

Magnum Research has marketed various versions of the short recoil Jericho 941 pistol under the Baby Eagle and Desert Eagle Pistol names; these weapons are not directly related to the Desert Eagle but do share a similar visual design.

The design for the Desert Eagle was initiated by Bernard C. White of Magnum Research and Arnolds Streinbergs of Riga Arms Institute, who filed a US patent application for a mechanism for a gas-actuated pistol in January 1983. This established the basic layout of the Desert Eagle. A second patent application was filed in December 1985, after the basic design had been refined by IMI (Israel Military Industries) for production, and this is the form that went into production.

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