Posted: 4/4/2015 10:46:53 PM EDT
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I am writing a paper for an English class over the M240, its history, design and use ect.
I am having some difficulty in finding sources of the actual functionality of the weapon. Finding information about the ar15 for instance is pretty easy. I can just take mine apart and look at each part and how it functions with the whole but obviously I cant to that with the M240 (although I wish I could  ).
Does anyone know of any documents or maybe even a youtube video covering the actual functionality of the weapon? All I seem to find are videos of servicemen doing function checks and disassembly. |
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Wow. That was quick. That is exactly what I was looking for. I guess I wasnt looking hard enough.
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I am writing a paper for an English class over the M240, its history, design and use ect. I am having some difficulty in finding sources of the actual functionality of the weapon. Finding information about the ar15 for instance is pretty easy. I can just take mine apart and look at each part and how it functions with the whole but obviously I cant to that with the M240 (although I wish I could ).
Does anyone know of any documents or maybe even a youtube video covering the actual functionality of the weapon? All I seem to find are videos of servicemen doing function checks and disassembly. FM 3.22-68 |
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Quoted: I am writing a paper for an English class over the M240, its history, design and use ect. I am having some difficulty in finding sources of the actual functionality of the weapon. Finding information about the ar15 for instance is pretty easy. I can just take mine apart and look at each part and how it functions with the whole but obviously I cant to that with the M240 (although I wish I could ).Does anyone know of any documents or maybe even a youtube video covering the actual functionality of the weapon? All I seem to find are videos of servicemen doing function checks and disassembly.  |
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Wow. That was quick. That is exactly what I was looking for. I guess I wasnt looking hard enough.Quoted:
Wow. That was quick. That is exactly what I was looking for. I guess I wasnt looking hard enough.I searched "M240 cycle of operations". |
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http://remtek.com/arms/fn/mag/
Belgium's MAGnificent MG by Peter G. Kokalis Say what you will about artillery, tanks or helicopters, the machine gun remains the ruler of the infantry battlefield. It took a first formal curtain call during World War I and has never missed a combat performance since. The result has been a great deal of military concern regarding the proper form of the machine gun. When World War II ended the winners opted for a concept conceived by the losers. By the early 1930s the German Army had formulated requirements for an Einheitsmaschinengewehr (universal machine gun). This single gun - fitted with a variety of mounts and accessories - was to serve as a squad automatic weapon, a wheeled vehicle and tank machine gun, antiaircraft gun and medium support weapon. The German Army even proposed its use as an aircraft gun to the Luftwaffe. Production, maintenance and training could be simplified with a standard MG. The result of this attempt to cover all bases with a single runner was the impressive, sinister-looking, less-than-perfect MG34 (maschinengewehr, 1934). A machinist's nightmare, the MG34 has more than 100 finely-fitted components. Even the heavy mount for the MG34 had some 200 parts. Overly sensitive to ammunition and environment - as battlefield performance demonstrated - it was followed by the far superior MG42. This roller-locked, recoil-operated Grossfuss design had a cyclic rate of 1,200 rpm. For this reason, it was soon dubbed "Hitler's zipper" by Allied troops who became all-too-familiar with its rapid roar. The gun intri-gued Allied small arms technologists who wanted to convert it for use by their troops. An attempt by U. S - ordnance personnel to convert the MG42 to caliber .30-06 failed due to dimensional effors but a number of the MG42's features - and the multi-purpose philosophy - were incorporated into the two most prominent post-war "general purpose machine guns" (GPMGs). One of those is the U.S. M60 which is a very bad machine gun. The other significant example is the Fabrique Nationale Mitrailleuses D'Appui General (machine gun of general purpose), otherwise known as the Mitrailleuse a Gaz (gas-operated machine gun). This Belgian entry is even more distinguished than its name. Commonly called the FN MAG 58, this epitome of the GPMG genre was the crowning achievement of FN's premier designer M. Ernest Vervier. The MAG is belt-fed, gas-operated and fires from the open bolt position. It is air-cooled and its 21.4-inch barrel is designed for quick-change by the gun crew. In the ground version, i. weighs 231/2 pounds with an overall length of 49.2 inches. Its adjustable gas regulator permits the cyclic rate to be varied from 650 to 1,100 rpm. Some of the MAG's features are fascinating but it helps understanding to summarize the gun's method of operation and firing cycle. With the bolt retracted, the first round of a belt in the cartridge way, and the top cover closed, pressure on the trigger will drop the sear and release the bolt. The bolt's feed horns come in contract with the base of the cartridge and move it towards the chamber. The locking lever contacts the ends of the front guides inside the receiver and begins to move downward. The bolt chambers the round while the extactor slips over the rim. At this point, the piston extension continues its forward movement and accelerates the downward swing of the locking lever until the face of the lever is in position in front of the locking shoulder. The system is now in battery. The piston extension keeps charging onward a short distance causing the firing pin to protrude through the bolt face to strike the primer. The piston extension stops all forward travel when its shoulder strikes the face of the gas cylinder.... |
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He clearly wants his obviously liberal prof to fail him. Quoted:
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English class? 240?  He clearly wants his obviously liberal prof to fail him. Actually, funny story. I mentioned I was having some trouble finding a topic for the paper (its a technical writing class and one requirement is that the topic is interesting for him) and I mentioned I am interested in the military and stuff like that. Professor mention he was writing a book on the M240 and that it would be interesting for him to read about it. So its kind of his idea. On the same note I have actually had pretty good luck writing about "controversial" topics. Nuclear war, self defense, concealed carry, campus carry, Iraq, Afghanistan. Ive written about all of these and received pretty good grades despite my teachers politics . Sometimes I have written specifically to press the buttons of my professors and it seems to work well pretty much every time.
Thanks for the help everyone... Lots of good stuff here. |