Machines | WWI Era Blowback Action Sub-Machine Gun
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Claire Samuelson, Director of the Ordnance Training & Heritage Center, gives a brief history of the WWI era (1918) experimental blowback action sub-machine gun.
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That would be awesome to see this smg in Battlefield 1.
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I had a feeling there was an oddball US SMG floating around during ww1, now I know it's real! It would be nice to see a test fire...
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That is a really cool gun. I do like these kind of experimental designs of WW1 and WW2 weaponry.
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It's a rotating clipazine.
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It looks like a lot of stampings were used in the construction of that gun, which would be highly unusual for that time.
Were there a lot of stampings, or am I seeing machined forgings which just happen to be very thin?
Either way, a fascinating, if impractical design. The Germans also used a submachine gun which took pistol magazines, but the MP18 had 32 round drums available. -
very cool to see this indeed - what other goodies can you share with us ;^)
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Gun nerds, please. Nobody cares about the difference between clips & mags. NOBODY. NOT EVEN JESUS CHRIST.
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How very interesting!
Disappointed to hear the director referring to magazines as "clips" though. -
>clip
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Kind of disheartening that the Director of Ordnance Training and Heritage doesn't know the difference between a clip and a magazine.
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Wonderful gun, would love to see this shoot!
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'Seven rounds per clip'
I never knew the 1911 used en-blocs! Do you have any info on this clip fed 1911? -
clips
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Magazine. They're called magazines.
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Very cool! Was it just a simple straight blowback mechanism? And did it automatically index the turret when a magazine was empty, or did the shooter have to do that manually?