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    Hisname reacted to Alex C. in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    Some more G3 photos:

     

     
     

     

     
     

     

     

     

     

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    Hisname reacted to Pascal in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    In that page, it's just examples as to how to hold the rifle prone and how to hold the rifle while shooting air targets.
     
    I think it's just so the short handed dudes could see that it's ok to grab it not primarily by the handguard.
     
    Hell, i couldn't grab the AK normally by the handguard while prone, so only magazine hold for me in prone.
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    Hisname reacted to Alex C. in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    I found the gentleman who has the other two 5.56x45mm Type 81 rifles:
     

     
     

     
     
    Mine is the sidefolder, so one was imported in each config.
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    Hisname reacted to Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    It's on a Model 1918 tripod with a Lewis-Vickers tripod adapter.
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    Hisname reacted to Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    Someone elsewhere asked me to compare the Chauchat with the Breda 30, which gave me an excuse to go off about automatic rifle genealogy!
     
    The more complex answer is that the M.30 and the Chauchat are two different weapons. The Chauchat is really an individual weapon, like a BAR. It is what I like to call an "automatic rifle", and within that category I'd include the weapons traditionally called "assault rifles". So think of the Chauchat as a really primitive assault rifle that eats standard gun food. And because of the circumstances at the time, it's fundamentally a support weapon, and not a mainline rifle. That's just the nature of the beast. But in 1916, the concept here wasn't really differentiated, I think a lot of people get confused on that. I've seen a lot of dickering for example about the Fedorov Avtomat, saying it is or is not an assault rifle. People arguing yes (like myself) will point out its muzzle energy was within a few joules of the later StG-44 "Ur-assault rifle", and that it meets all the criteria we know now. People arguing no say "hey the Russians only ever issued it as a squad automatic weapon". That's also true. The problem for me is, the light machine gun and the assault rifle were not really differentiated yet in the late teens and early twenties. They were kind of the same thing. For example, only a few light machine guns at the time had tripod mounts. The Chauchat didn't. The BAR didn't. The Lewis and Madsen did get tripod mounts eventually, but in both cases they were effectively afterthoughts. See the images below:
    


    In both cases, the tripod has an adapter that clamps to the barrel shroud. There is no integral tripod pivot point, as in, say, a Vickers:
     

     
    That point near the front of the receiver with the big hole in it? That's a tripod mount. None of the early LMGs, which I'd argue are all basically early automatic rifles (proto-assault rifles), have that as an integral feature. Now fast forward, look at an M249 (which for a long time was not even designated as a light machine gun, warranting only the euphemistic "squad automatic weapon"):
    

     
    Integral tripod mount. From day 1. 
     
    (Just by the way, here's an experimental BAR tripod from 1944, it's pretty cool and probably also a horrible idea).
     
    Now, during the interwar period, things change. Let's look at the Bren, perhaps the archetypal interwar light machine gun:


     
    Bingo. Tripod mount. This is one of the major changes that occurs during the interwar period. Weapons that previously only provided for prone or shoulder fire, like the Chauchat, were either adapted for or replaced by weapons that provided for tripod use. This was a stage in the development of the modern General Purpose Machine Gun. It produced a magazine-fed weapon that could be used like an automatic rifle, or in rare cases just like a Vickers or Maxim gun. I would say it is with the addition of integral tripod mounts that the larger collection of automatic rifles (which, as of 1918, I would say is basically a singularity of assault rifles, squad support weapons, and light machine guns all in one) began to diversify into several distinct categories, including modern light machine guns, general purpose machine guns, and assault rifles. This process happened from about 1930-1950. If I were to use an analogy to zoological evolutionary cladistics, I would identify the stem group "Automatic Rifles" (or maybe "Weapons"), and divergent from that "Light Machine Guns", "General Purpose Machine Guns", "Assault Rifles", and a number of other dead-end ("extinct") groups like "Support Submachine Guns". 

    Now that I'm done with the rundown of the history of the concept, where does the Breda 30 fit? Well it's super weird, not just mechanically but in terms of its lineage. Originally, the design was the Breda 5C, which was a medium machine gun, complete with tripod mount, spade grips, the whole shebang. It was intended to compete with things like the Vickers, directly. 
     

     
    The Breda 30 is basically the 5C with the spade grips removed and a pistol grip and stock added (which was an option on the 5C, as seen above). The Breda 30 even retains the tripod mount of the 5C:



    (That flat dovetail looking thing under the feed housing is the tripod mount).
     
    So the Breda 30 is really one of these interwar light machine guns like the Bren. Which means it's not exactly the same kind of gun as a Chauchat. You can't strap a Chauchat to a truck. You can strap a Breda 30 to a truck. You can't very easily reload a Breda 30 by yourself. You can reload a Chauchat by yourself without issue. The differences are admittedly subtle and nestled within details, but they're there. So comparing the two directly is difficult!
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    Hisname reacted to Alex C. in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    This thread needs more Daewoo.
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Hisname reacted to Vicious_CB in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    I like Kalashoid, it sounds alot better than the Shrike/Ares16/MCR  or whatever they're calling it these days.which is where I assume they got the idea from. 
     
     
     
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    Hisname reacted to Vicious_CB in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    More like that muzzle break. Belt-fed 3-gun gamer shit.
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    Hisname reacted to Belesarius in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    I've seen this abomination, and felt the need to share the pain.
     

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    Hisname reacted to GMerlon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    Another interesting dump of firearm photos on imgur, mostly of prototype automatic weapons in the Royal Armories Collection. Here are some of the more interesting ones:
     

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    Hisname reacted to Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    7mm Broadway Trust Company. A high low pressure recoilless 7mm... Thing.
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    Hisname got a reaction from That_Baka in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    These are the magazines of the same author - Vladimir Kamzolov. The first one has a plastic case, and the second one is made of steel.
    They are from the same project "Poplin"(1971), and have the same index - "M100" (100 rounds 5.45x39). 
    On the RPK-16, this magazine is installed to draw attention to modern developments in this direction.
     
    And a little more history:

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    Hisname got a reaction from Collimatrix in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    These are the magazines of the same author - Vladimir Kamzolov. The first one has a plastic case, and the second one is made of steel.
    They are from the same project "Poplin"(1971), and have the same index - "M100" (100 rounds 5.45x39). 
    On the RPK-16, this magazine is installed to draw attention to modern developments in this direction.
     
    And a little more history:

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    Hisname got a reaction from Belesarius in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    These are the magazines of the same author - Vladimir Kamzolov. The first one has a plastic case, and the second one is made of steel.
    They are from the same project "Poplin"(1971), and have the same index - "M100" (100 rounds 5.45x39). 
    On the RPK-16, this magazine is installed to draw attention to modern developments in this direction.
     
    And a little more history:

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    Hisname got a reaction from Sturgeon in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    These are the magazines of the same author - Vladimir Kamzolov. The first one has a plastic case, and the second one is made of steel.
    They are from the same project "Poplin"(1971), and have the same index - "M100" (100 rounds 5.45x39). 
    On the RPK-16, this magazine is installed to draw attention to modern developments in this direction.
     
    And a little more history:

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    Hisname reacted to LoooSeR in The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.   
    I don't know if this is AK-12 or not. But..

     
     
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