Library - Gun automatics

Balanced action

Balanced action

Balanced action in automatic firearms can be traced back to pre-WW1 era, to various attempts to create low-recoil weapons. In these attempts, designers ...

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Inertia operated

Inertia operated

Inertia operated systems are historically interesting because they first appeared in the early course of the development of automatic firearms; but then ...

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Gas operated

Gas operated

Gas operated action, that is, automatic or self-loading gun systems that use the high pressure powder gases released by the exploding cartridge to cycle ...

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Recoil operated

Recoil operated

Recoil is one of the earliest and most successful methods of operation for automatic firearms. It works for a surprisingly broad spectrum of weapons, from ...

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Delayed blowback

Delayed blowback

In our previous article we discussed the simplest form of automatic gun action, known as “blowback”, or technically speaking, unlocked breech action. In ...

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Blowback Action

Blowback Action

Simple Blowback Operated, Automatic Action: Generally speaking, firearms can be separated into two separate classes – manually operated or automatic. ...

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