Giat Industries

Nexter Systems

Alain Charton

Dominique Guesnet

Jean-Claude Bourdin

Jo&euml;l Brianne

A device to recuperate the energy produced during the recoiling of a weapon provided with a hydraulic fluid power circuit, wherein said device comprises an energy recuperating cylinder activated by the recoil of said weapon, a double-acting cylinder comprising two chambers separated by a piston, a first chamber of said cylinder being connected to said hydraulic power circuit of said weapon, said piston of said cylinder pushing said hydraulic fluid in said circuit into a storage accumulator when said weapon recoils. The energy recuperating cylinder comprises a second chamber connected to a recoil mechanism that ensures pressurising of said mechanism.

Device to recuperate the energy produced during the recoiling of a weapon

A weapon barrel muzzle brake ( ) with elements for fixing the muzzle brake to a weapon barrel ( ) having a forward muzzle end face with external coupling threading ( ) in the external surface of the forward end of the barrel, and an externally cylindrical rest surface ( ) between the external threading and the muzzle end face, the muzzle brake ( ) having internal coupling threading ( ) for engaging external coupling threading on a weapon barrel, a radially extending rest wall ( ) for abutting the end face ( ) of a weapon barrel muzzle, and an internally cylindrically rest surface ( ) for fitting snugly over an external rest surface on a weapon barrel, and locking stop elements ( ) for preventing rotation of the muzzle brake with respect to a weapon barrel.

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Crosses, France

Alain Charton