AMCP 706-260, AMC PAMPHLET: ENGINEERING DESIGN HANDBOOK - GUNS SERIES - AUTOMATIC WEAPONS (FEB-1970)

AMCP 706-260, AMC PAMPHLET: ENGINEERING DESIGN HANDBOOK - GUNS SERIES - AUTOMATIC WEAPONS (FEB-1970)., This handbook is one of a series on Guns. It is pat of a group of handbooks covering the engineering principles and fundamental data needed in the development of Army materiel, which (as a group) constitutes the Engineering Design Handbook Series. This handbook presents information on the fundamental operating principles and design of automatic weapons and applies specifically to automatic weapons of all types such as blowback, recoil-operated, gas-operated, and ex:ernal'y powered. These include single, double, multlbarrel, and revolver-type machine guns and range from the simple blowback to the intricate M61AI Vulcan and Navy 20 mm Aircraft Gun Mark Il Mod 5 Machine Guns. Methods are advanced for preparing engineering design data on firing cycle, spring design, gas dynamics, magazines, loaders, firing pins, etc. All components are considered except tubc design which appears in another handbook, AMCP 706-252, Gun Tubes.