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Gear-Ratio-Delayed? Yep, It's a Thing: French MAT 1955 Prototype (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-12-20 12:00:02 +0000 UTCIn the search for an improvement to the MAS 1949 rifle for the French military, all the French arsenals proposed new designs. MAS supplied an updated version that was ultimately adopted as the MAS 49/56, but the Tulle Arsenal (MAT) had a wacky idea of its own. In 1955, they presented a short-recoil, tilting bolt, gear-ratio-delayed system. It was an open bolt firing rifle chambered for the 7.5x54mm cartridge, using detachable 20-round magazines. Today we have one of the first models to look at, and there was a second iteration in 1956, which lightened the rifle by replacing some steel parts with aluminum. Neither was successful, much the the relief of the French Army...
Many thanks to the IRCGN (Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale) for allowing me access to film this unique rifle for you!
Comments
Stuart Morrow
Evan Jones did it
Caedwyll
I always wondered if you could do a gear-ratio delayed blowback gun, same idea as a lever delayed gun with a different method of obtaining mechanical disadvantage. It's a lot easier to get higher ratios with gears than a lever in the same package, but the gears have to be extremely high quality not to shear off teeth with that much torque involved.
Albini family
The only way this could get more Steampunk would be if it were powered by actual steam.
