Giat Industries

L'etat Francais

Guy Ferrand

Patrick Pochard

Evelyne Montet

Didier Gobet

Georges Simon

Joel Marcon

Medium-calibre feed system, of the type comprising an ammunition feed system and a firing and loading system with a barrel, for example, which is characterized in that it comprises an ammunition box in which the ammunition is stored without being linked together by any medium, a drive mechanism for loading the ammunition, round by round, to the loading and firing system, an energy source for controlling the drive mechanism during the firing of a burst, the latter comprising a link of the elastic type interposed between the ammunition box and the firing and loading system, this link consisting, for example, of a chain conveyor.

Ammunition feed system for a medium-calibre firearm

A medium caliber automatic firearm with a high firing rate including a star drum which revolves in indexed fashion and which is in line with and driven by a cylinder star wheel, whose rotation is synchronized with that of the star drum, is mounted to the side of and is parallel to the star drum. A stripper is mounted between the star wheel and the star drum in order to separate cartridges from links at a point where the ammunition belt comes out of the star wheel while allowing the links to be evacuated from the firearm. A mechanism is also included which introduces the cartridges into successive chambers of the cylinder, the cartridges being lined up with the chambers by a star drum as the latter rotates.

Automatic weapon with small barrel for rapid firing

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Bourges, France

Guy Ferrand