Plastic machine gun

US soldiers will be much more relaxed thanks to new machine guns. This weapon was designed with the help of computer modeling to minimize weight and shoot cage bullets with plastic shells.

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Every soldier knew how to carry a machine gun with a sufficient amount of ammunition. The results of the new US military study allow for a nearly two-fold reduction in the ammunition weight for infantry guns and the introduction of a new machine gun that is nearly 4kg lighter than the current M249 mid-range gun.

The weight of machine guns, basic light support weapons, is much reduced by making a completely new type of weapon and special cage type with plastic shells developed in the framework of the LSAT program. .

Cage cage LSAT includes warhead, cable-xun, discharge dose and plastic shell

The new weapon system makes the machine gunner easier to breathe because he now has to carry a very heavy load: the M249 machine gun along with a 200-ammunition box weighs nearly 10kg, and the additional ammunition weighs 10kg or more . Therefore, the equipment weight of a machine gunner sometimes reaches 35kg, which adversely affects his health and fighting ability.

In order to reduce weight, the new machine guns use cage bullets (with warheads hidden inside the ammunition) with plastic shells, and the gun itself is designed by computer modeling to minimize weight. amount without affecting the feature.

As a result, the LSAT machine gun with a number of 1,000 heavy bullets was only 20.4kg, much lighter than the normal machine guns that fired traditional bullets with copper bullets.

The LSAT LMG machine gun is 4kg lighter than the current M249 machine gun, but still has the same firepower

Recently, the new weapons system was performed at the US Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, when a group of soldiers conducted a test of the new gun. Test shooters did not notice any difference in the accuracy and speed of the new ammunition compared to traditional bullets. However, the reduced weight of the machine gun had a positive effect on the accuracy of shooting because the gunner was less tired when moving or shooting from his hand.

The plastic shell also demonstrates the advantages: thanks to better insulation, the risk of self-igniting gunpowder is reduced, as well as reducing the probability of injury from a long shot, when the bullet is knocked down. came out after exploding himself.

LSAT bullets can also be fitted to lightweight plastic bullets

Currently, four new mid-guns have successfully fired more than 12,000 bullets, and when the Pentagon officially evaluates, it is expected to shoot more than 100,000 bullets.

LSAT LMG machine gun is not only a new unique weapon for machine gunner, but also a first-time experience of new ammunition that can be applied to all infantry guns and allows a half-weight reduction. ammunition to carry.