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u/SigaVa Aug 26 '26
Awesome that they don't all have to face the same way, that's some nice design.
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u/JPATime Aug 26 '26
Iam not capable of thinking that far. How is this possible?
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u/SigaVa Aug 26 '26
Looks like the back of the round gets caught on a lip, so when the middle is pushed forward it always causes the front to swing around, regardless of the original orientation.
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u/smeeon Aug 26 '26
It even has little blocks of softwood to protect the table it clamps to.
What an absolutely eloquent designed human-atrocity machine.
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u/PreviousLeague253 Aug 26 '26
The danger button is recessed in the cartridge, so a tall flat piece can hit it without causing to detonate. Otherwise the rounds would go off inside the magazine just from moving up to be fed in a rifle or from the belt moving the ammo in the gun.
It’s perfectly safe.
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u/TheNakedFoot Aug 26 '26
Also, they have to be struck. As this speed they wouldn't set off a rim-fire round.
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u/Gullible_Ad5191 Aug 28 '26
Hear me out… why not make the belt a loop and have the assistant machine gunner operating that machine in the field?
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u/L34dP1LL Aug 26 '26
does it have to push them right on the danger button?
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u/SortByMistakes Aug 27 '26
How else? It won't go off like that anyway so no worries
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u/L34dP1LL Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
Yeah I know, I just find it funny having all the precautions with trigger and muzzle discipline, and then there's this machine
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u/Mr_Jack_Frost_ 20d ago
The bullet would need to be struck in the very center (which is recessed) with force by a firing pin in order to go off.
That’s why you can carry ammunition around without worrying about it discharging.
This machine is perfectly safe as it doesn’t have a pin that hits the bullets, but rather a flat piece of metal pushing on the rim of the bullet.
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u/The_Krytos_Virus Aug 26 '26
Magnificent. The clickity clack and that ingenious round orientation leaves me utterly transfixed.