PolarFBear
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Every gun has a rate of fire, battle ships 2 shots a minute; M-60, 900 rounds a minute. What controls the rate of fire on an automatic weapon, bullet weight, recoil spring tension???
What controls the rate of fire on an automatic weapon, bullet weight, recoil spring tension???
Regular firing rate would be 5-6rpm, which preserves the life of the gun tube.
This first model was very different to Maxim's production weapon: the heart of the mechanism was a crank resembling that of a piston engine in the rear of the weapon that rotated completely as the bolt cycled, requiring a very distinctive bulge to contain it. This version also had a pointer-operated fire regulator which allowed it to fire at any rate from 1 rpm to 600 rpm.
Literary reference: A steady six rounds per minute which saves barrels and breaks armies. S.M. Stirling.
44 amp, close. The M-16 has a sustained rate of fire of 12-15 rounds a minute.
Suspect the gas tube would be an issue before the barrel. I saw a 100 round dump from a Beta C-Mag in a fully automatic M-16/AR platform that had the gas tube glowing pretty bright.ss1 in Post #2 nailed it, it’s pure physics.
I believe Metal Storm had a max rate of 1 million rounds per minute but that never hit production (probably a good thing at current .30 cal prices.)
But some anti gunners have said on TV (so it must be true) that ARs can fire 30 rounds per second / 1800 rounds per minute. I’d like to see the barrel after 1 minute on that one.
You're forgetting the reload. As does most when discussing RPM.
600 rpm is only factual if you have 600 rounds available without the need to reload
Metal Storm had no gas tube. The rounds were electrically fired one after the other thru the use of clever electrical -mechanical engineering.Suspect the gas tube would be an issue before the barrel. I saw a 100 round dump from a Beta C-Mag in a fully automatic M-16/AR platform that had the gas tube glowing pretty bright.