Now if we can just get them to quit using live .50 rounds as drift punches when knocking the gun retaining pins in and out when removing/installing the gun on/from a vehicle mount.
Sounds like some needed improvements.
I recall that darn guage wedge we had to use on the Ma Deuce.
But as for reducing the signature?
There’s nothing on earth like a Man Deuce tossing half inch chunks of junk around.
If it wasn't for the imagination and hard career-damaging work that Major Jim Nelson did in '93, we wouldn't have the M240 machinegun instead of that cheap M60.
It would be a good thing if the Corps started promoting officers to Generals with a technology degree instead of sticking to Physical Education Majors.
“The updated M2A1 is easier and safer to use due to three major changes: a quick-change barrel, fixed headspace and timing, and a flash hider that reduces the weapon’s signature by 95 percent at night, according to a recent Marine Corps Systems Command press release.”
Changes that could have been made DECADES AGO.
Headspace is the distance between the face of the bolt and the base of the cartridge case when it is fully seated in the chamber.
I’m not sure this is right. Or else I have understood it wrong over the years. I’m not a reloader.
That was the nice thing about the M-85 version of the .50 cal on the old M-60A2, it had a set head space and timing, no need for a guage or the M2 adjustments.
War. War never changes...because the 1911 and Ma Deuce will always be there.
I know the photo at the article is a training facility, BUT if it were a hilltop position, it would be formidable. They could spit out some firepower!
How do they not have to time it, though? The barrel and bolt recipeocate independently. Must be some funky connection or some genius
Ma Deuce is recognized worldwide as the best heavy MG in the world. Improving the best is like putting sprinkles on an ice cream sundae.
FTA: a flash hider that reduces the weapon’s signature by 95 percent at night
I bet the gunners are real happy about that!
There is but one God. And John MOSES Browning is his Prophet.
You mean you had to adjust the headspace and timing every time you changed a barrel? What a wretched pain in the ass!
CC
What ever happened to water cooled machine guns.
I realize that they weigh substantially more than a modern air cooled MG but for a defensive fixed position that should not matter.
Now if we can just get them to quit using live .50 rounds as drift punches when knocking the gun retaining pins in and out when removing/installing the gun on/from a vehicle mount.