Belt-fed: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
imported>Howard C. Berkowitz (New page: In the context of machine guns, a means of supplying a continuous stream of ammunition, linked together in a flexible belt. "Belt" usually implies that there will be some manual handl...) |
imported>Howard C. Berkowitz No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{subpages}} | |||
In the context of [[machine gun]]s, a means of supplying a continuous stream of ammunition, linked together in a flexible belt. "Belt" usually implies that there will be some manual handling of the ammunition; [[magazine (firearms)|magazine-fed]] machine guns may internally have a structure similar to a belt, but the magazines are changed as a unit without manipulating the belt. | In the context of [[machine gun]]s, a means of supplying a continuous stream of ammunition, linked together in a flexible belt. "Belt" usually implies that there will be some manual handling of the ammunition; [[magazine (firearms)|magazine-fed]] machine guns may internally have a structure similar to a belt, but the magazines are changed as a unit without manipulating the belt. | ||
Revision as of 12:40, 17 February 2009
In the context of machine guns, a means of supplying a continuous stream of ammunition, linked together in a flexible belt. "Belt" usually implies that there will be some manual handling of the ammunition; magazine-fed machine guns may internally have a structure similar to a belt, but the magazines are changed as a unit without manipulating the belt.
The belt may be constructed with disintegrating links, which fall off as the cartriges enter the gun, or the gun's mechanism may extract bullets from a reusable belt, the reusable belt coiling underneath the gun.
Examples of belt-fed machine guns include the M240, M249, M60 and M2. They contrast with magazine-fed units such as the M149.