M2 .50-cal. Multishot Capabilities at the US Army Research Laboratory

Abstract

In small arms experimentation it is desirable to conduct experiments using an actual fielded threat weapon system whenever possible. On occasion, however, this may not be possible, and a surrogate must be substituted. In these experiments a platform was designed to simulate the 2-round burst of the M2 .50-caliber Browning machine gun (BMG). The 2-round-burst cyclic rate was achieved by using 2 Mann barrels, fired off of a standard Frankford Arsenal rest in conjunction with a time delay generator.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA621197

Entities

People

  • Todd Brinkman

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Alternating Current
  • Ammunition
  • Ball Ammunition
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Cyclic Rate
  • Firing Rate
  • Generators
  • Guns
  • Instrumentation
  • Machine Guns
  • Military Research
  • Power Supplies
  • Small Arms
  • Solenoids
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • ballistics.