Classes and Types of Automatic Weapons (Klassi i Tipy Avtomaticmeskogo Oruzhiya)

Abstract

There are four classes of automatic weapons, classified according to the manner in which they make use of propellant gas energy in operating the automatic mechanism for reloading. The first class, featuring 'blow back' bolts, uses recoil energy. The second class, consisting of gas operated weapons, uses propellant gas for reloading. The third class, characterized by 'blow forward' barrel weapons, uses forward bolt energy. The fourth class is made up of assorted types in which reloading is based on several different methods. The report describes the mechanics of each class.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 15, 1972
Accession Number
AD0745218

Entities

People

  • S. Mutsinov

Organizations

  • United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assault Rifles
  • Automatic
  • Automatic Rifles
  • Automatic Weapons
  • Cartridge Cases
  • Firing Rate
  • First World War
  • Gas Cylinders
  • Guns
  • Language
  • Low Temperature
  • Machine Guns
  • Rifles
  • Small Arms
  • Standards
  • Submachine Guns
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.