The MG-42 barrel won’t hold up to 50 rounds in a row. lol. Although it’s a thick machine gun barrel. You’re talking about a regular rifle barrel. 200 shots after continuous fire is quite a decent result.
- Sustained Fire Limitations:
A good crew could fire about 250 rounds in 12.5 seconds before needing a barrel change, according to Warfare History Network. Some sources suggest changing barrels after every 150-250 rounds.
Dunno, I guess known enlisted soviet main knows better.
Anyway, hows the quick barrel change working out for avt ?
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It turns out that 200-250 shots is normal. Then why are you criticizing the AVT-40?
If it renders the gun useless, it really isnt.
Hence the question, hows the avt quick barrel change working out.
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about the same as on FG-42
quite relevant for subject of avt / mg42
anyway
The FG42’s practical rate of fire is estimated to be around 250 rounds per minute
But no mention about melting rifling so try again
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The different versions meant that the service life of an MG 42 barrel varied between 3,500 and 8,000 rounds assuming the barrel was used according to the regulations, which prohibited rapid fire beyond 150 rounds. Excessive overheating caused by rapid firing about 500 rounds through a barrel resulted in unacceptable wear of the bore rendering the barrel useless.
mg42 had 150 rounds of continuous fire as normal, while avt 40 had 150 rounds of continuous fire as breaking point…
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one is a machine gun designed for sustained fire, the other is a semi-automatic rifle designed to be fired 10 times a minute. Its no brainer to figure out that AVT-40 wont last long in full-auto.
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Even modern selectfire rifles aren’t really used in full auto - in the context of Enlisted where everyone is constantly mag dumping with rifles this shouldn’t really matter.
I say - if the gun had a different rate of fire in the real world? Why not change it.
First the rates of fire should be implemented correctly - and then should the gun be balanced accordingly. This now also would effect other guns as well.
STG 44 had a rate of fire of 500, this should be corrected and then afterwards a way should be found to make that gun still effective in BR5 ( like higher damage/accuracy)
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500-600 rpm actually, while AS-44 had around 600, but both have more with about 10% for some reason.
The only difference is that fire rate actually matters for ARs since they are 2 hit kill while SF rifles are one hit.
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Yes
Do you even know why machineguns swap their barrels?
Apparently not… Maybe you should just shut up when talking about thing you do not even understand.
A small hint, it is not because the old barrel is totally ruined and unuseable just like how it is described here…
The machinegun would swap barrels in before it would take damage at all or cause premature dischage bullets cooking off due to the heat of the barrel.
Once a barrel change was initiated the old barrel would be replaced by a spare barel and the old barrel would be put aside for a few minuts to properly cool down. Once it cooled down enough it could be used again and replace the “new” barrel. By cycling through the same 3 or 4 barrels again and again a machine gun could keep all its barrels from overheating and in turn from any additional burden on the rifling from continious fire.
Any sorce for that or did you just make that up?
A machine gun that cant shoot 50 rounds when it is issued with 50 round boxes by default would be very stupid so I highly doubt that claim of yours. Also again a barrel swap is still far away from having your rifling melting and your gun ruined just like how it happens on the AVT.
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continuous fire and practical fire are not the same thing so try again
and where is the link to the source of this nonsense?
The barrel of a machine gun is different from the barrel of a rifle, in case you didn’t know. So that’s normal.
Its no brainer to figure out that this applies to both FG-42 and T-20 and Auto Hey
why are you so aggressive? Too much internet today? Go outside, touch the grass.
Yes, I was wrong here, there is no need to make such a drama out of it, especially since people before you have already pointed out my mistakes to me.
- The barrel life is 6000 rounds when firing 50 rounds per minute, after which the rifle was allowed to cool. Continuous fire brings the life down to 150-200 rounds.
Name AVT-40
Calibre 7.62
Magazine size 10
I support the idea of adjusting the magazine size of AVT-40 to real world conditions
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yes yes, AVT-40, SVT-40, what’s the difference
tell me what is the name of full auto modification of svt40? maybe avt40?
It can be called whatever you want, but these are different rifles.