Post by alucard15423 on Mar 3, 2014 19:44:17 GMT
Hi Guys!
For armament fanatics like me i wanted to start a little Topic about Weapons used in WW2 Aviaton with Pictures and as much Infos as possible.
But most of my knowledge centers around German armament so if somone has infos and Pictures about other Nations i would highly appreciate it.
Without further delay here i go :
Rheinmetall Mg-17 calibre 7,92mm.
As we already know the stiff regulation of the Versailles treaty had a serius effect on the german guns manufacturing after WW1. With most of the early desing destroyed or captured the newly created Luftwaffe had to provide itself with new weapons, with were no related with the olders ones, a very favourable thing.
The first new desing was the rifle caliber Mg-17 wich was introduced in the biplane Fighter Arado Ar-65 in mid 30s, later it saw service in the Ar-68, He-51 and the legendary FW-190s and Bf-109s.
The weapons is adopted for fixed mountings only.Is feeded by a desintegrable metallic belt and It work for the short recoil principle: the barrel and the lock recoil soem milimeters back after the shot and then the brech became open. The Mg-17 used a mecanism called "locking slevee" wich was a interrupted threaded ring wich, it open and close the breech used the linear alternative movement. This kind of mechanic action was used in some early Rheinmetall and Solothurn desings like the MG-29 and MG-30. To increase the rate of fire the muzzle had an gas trap wich efectively turned back a portion of the bullet propelant and accelerate the lock movement.
The gun had a cyclic rate of fire of 1160 rpm, droping at nearly 1000 rpm in sincronizated mountings like the ones in the german single engine Fighters.
Twin Mg-17 over a FW-190A-1, note the side eyection chutes for the links and cases.
This MG is phneumatic triggered, it weights 12 kg, have an overall lenght of 1150 mm (600 mm barrel). Despite being designed for fighters some were used in fixed mounting in bombers and attack planes like the He-111 and Ju-88. this was used as a defensive device, even it was more a psicological weapon.
"Scary mounting" fixed Mg-17 in the He-111 s tail.
Nose layout in a Me-110, 4 x Mg-17:
Where this comes from is MUCH more ... that is IF ppl. are interestet in it.
For armament fanatics like me i wanted to start a little Topic about Weapons used in WW2 Aviaton with Pictures and as much Infos as possible.
But most of my knowledge centers around German armament so if somone has infos and Pictures about other Nations i would highly appreciate it.
Without further delay here i go :
Rheinmetall Mg-17 calibre 7,92mm.
As we already know the stiff regulation of the Versailles treaty had a serius effect on the german guns manufacturing after WW1. With most of the early desing destroyed or captured the newly created Luftwaffe had to provide itself with new weapons, with were no related with the olders ones, a very favourable thing.
The first new desing was the rifle caliber Mg-17 wich was introduced in the biplane Fighter Arado Ar-65 in mid 30s, later it saw service in the Ar-68, He-51 and the legendary FW-190s and Bf-109s.
The weapons is adopted for fixed mountings only.Is feeded by a desintegrable metallic belt and It work for the short recoil principle: the barrel and the lock recoil soem milimeters back after the shot and then the brech became open. The Mg-17 used a mecanism called "locking slevee" wich was a interrupted threaded ring wich, it open and close the breech used the linear alternative movement. This kind of mechanic action was used in some early Rheinmetall and Solothurn desings like the MG-29 and MG-30. To increase the rate of fire the muzzle had an gas trap wich efectively turned back a portion of the bullet propelant and accelerate the lock movement.
The gun had a cyclic rate of fire of 1160 rpm, droping at nearly 1000 rpm in sincronizated mountings like the ones in the german single engine Fighters.
Twin Mg-17 over a FW-190A-1, note the side eyection chutes for the links and cases.
This MG is phneumatic triggered, it weights 12 kg, have an overall lenght of 1150 mm (600 mm barrel). Despite being designed for fighters some were used in fixed mounting in bombers and attack planes like the He-111 and Ju-88. this was used as a defensive device, even it was more a psicological weapon.
"Scary mounting" fixed Mg-17 in the He-111 s tail.
Nose layout in a Me-110, 4 x Mg-17:
Where this comes from is MUCH more ... that is IF ppl. are interestet in it.
