Abstract:
A rifle mechanism that will automatically fire, from a single barrel, a te-round burst at approximately 4,900 shots per minute (spm) without the use of a round counter, is disclosed. The rifle mechanism includes a cam and follower mechanism. The cam path controls the basic function of the rifle system to obtain the highest rate of fire with minimum operating rod velocities and to provide the ability to fire the three-round bursts without a round counter. The three rounds are loaded simultaneously into a chamber and the chamber is indexed to fire out each round before extraction. This eliminates the need for a full stroke cartridge handling mechanism.
Abstract:
An ammunition handling system has a housing for storing the main quantity of a belt of rounds of ammunition and a flexible guide for leading the belt from the housing to the gun, and having means at the forward end of the gun for retaining the belt therein when separated from the gun, and for locking onto the feeder of the gun, engaging the lead round of the belt into the feeder, and releasing the belt for feeding in a single manual operation of the gunner.
Abstract:
A drum ammunition system has drum partition which ensure a rotation of the case about its own longitudinal axis within the drum partitions as the case is advanced parallel to the drum longitudinal axis along the drum partitions by the helix.
Abstract:
An accelerator has a two cup shuttle which reciprocates as it rotates, and whose reciprocation relative to its rotation is controlled by a cam following surface on the shuttle which follows a stationary cam.
Abstract:
An ammunition storage and feeding system includes a plurality of ammunition storage and feeding containers which may be manually interlocked seriatim and whose contained belts of ammunition will, thereby, be respectively interlocked seriatim, all at the gunner''s convenience, during firing.
Abstract:
A weapon system is provided in a pod envelope having an endless conveyor, formed of a plurality of conveyor elements, and disposed in a two layer, multiturn, helical spiral, with a turnaround and transition between layers at each end, and a gun disposed within the spiral of the conveyor.