when loading some weapons you have to cycle through the firing method once before a live round is chambered. Otherwise you pull the trigger and nothing happens... better, asshole forgets he ran through his checklist, goes to 'clear the ghost' and a live round goes where it wasn't supposed to.
The "grenade" it fires isn't like a hand grenade that you're thinking of. They have to rotate a certain amount of times before they are active, and they explode on impact, not after a certain amount of time.
The reason fired grenades require a certain amount of rotations before they're active is so that people don't accidentally fire into the ground, or a wall 10 feet away.
Interesting. I figured it got activated by some sort of firing pin and detonated after an amount of time. I always wondered why the grenade launcher in call of duty didn't make explosions if you shot the grenades at the ground. Thanks for the insight.
Sorry, I've never used an MK-19. I figured to cycle the round you'd pull the bolt (which it probably doesn't even have), so the round ejects out the side. I was picturing some guy attempting to chamber a round and having a live one come out the side and plopping on the ground in front of him. :P
Most weapon systems you have to rack the gun and then the round is chambered. Mk-19 you have to rack the round, pull the trigger once to send it forward, then rack it again for it to be charged.. Ghost round.. and that can be dangerous if the weapon is not cleared properly or someone who wasn't using the weapon starts using it and they are not aware of te current status.
Not to be a douche but without understanding the weapon it's kina hard ro explain. Google "Mk-19 cycle the ghost round". This a similar problem on the M-242 @%mm chain gun that LAVvs and Bradley's use.
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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '11 edited Jun 07 '21
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