Yesterday when I was writing about the American Winchester anti-tank rifle in World War I, I mentioned that Winchester referred to their previous machine gun called Burton (burton) m1917, and many friends in the comment area asked about the origin of this machine gun, and many players of Battlefield One expressed their desire to know what the gun in the game was really going on, so talk about it today.
The full name of the Burton machine gun is burton light machine rifle, which literally translates to a light machine rifle. It's a weird name isn't it? Don't dwell on it, considering that the research and development background is still World War I, when the definition of light machine guns in the world was not perfect, for example, the Americans defined Shosha as an automatic rifle instead of a light machine gun, and later their own bar was also an automatic rifle. Therefore, the name of the Burton light machine rifle is understood according to the modern light machine gun.
It was developed in 1916, when the United States had not yet entered the war, and was still happily serving as a World War I observer and selling arms. Although fixed-wing aircraft were common during World War I, balloons used for observation and air defense were popular on the battlefield, as well as leviathan's version of the terrible beast, the Zeppelin airship. At that time, conventional bullets were not very effective against airships, and a few holes were not at all for Zeppelin with metal keels and backup hydrogen filling. Burton machine gun was developed to deal with these balloons floating in the sky
To play balloons, it is best to meet two requirements:
1, sufficient firepower, unit time can splash enough projectiles past.
2, the projectile must be with incendiary agent or enough tracer, and strive for some gas balls.
The British and French solution was to find a bunch of 11x59mm black powder rifle cartridges from the black powder era from the warehouse, because this batch of goods was caliber enough to facilitate the insertion of incendiary agents, and the picture below is the 11mm Vickers chain used by the British at that time.
The American solution was to redesign a cheaper machine gun, and Burton's machine gun designer, Frank Burton, a designer at Winchester, was directly modeled on the .351 bottomless edge bullet designed by his mother-in-law for the self-loading rifle to change a pointed-head bullet with incendiary agent——. 345wsl (8.76mm caliber).
Returning to the gun itself, the .345wsl has a shell length of only 35mm, which can be regarded as a kind of intermediate power rifle cartridge from a modern perspective, so it does not use rigid locking. And the predecessor of the .345wsl, the .351wsl, was fired by Winchester in 1907, and this semi-automatic rifle is also a free bolt principle, so the Burton machine gun has no problem with the free bolt principle. This structure also reduces production costs, but at the cost of a heavy design for the entire bolt and a longer repeat range.
Burton's most playful ones are two V-shaped 20-round magazines, but neither of them can be fed at the same time. Although the machine gun does have two magazine shafts connected to the receiver, it is actually inserted one deep and one shallow.
Players who have played Battlefield 1 should know this principle by inserting a deeper magazine to feed, pulling out a block slightly after the fight, and then another shallower full magazine going deep into the receiver to start feeding. This shallow and deep supply is really enough...
The pistol grip of this gun is also very interesting, it can be removed directly, I guess it was designed with the stock removed later and the d-type grip used, and then connected to the two brackets above the original pistol grip by connecting rods. In addition, its trigger has two upper and lower triggers, the upper one is semi-automatic, and the lower trigger is fully automatic after pulling the upper trigger... It may seem a bit two-sided, but this double trigger can greatly reduce the complexity of the fast and slow machine.
Although it is said that the Burton machine gun was originally designed as an "anti-balloon" machine gun, it was mainly equipped with aircraft observers. But many of its design details show that this product is also suitable for infantry use.
For example, although there is a ring area in front of the magazine in the figure used to fix the archer's Skaf ring, it also has a front handguard, which is suitable for the design of the individual gun. Its barrel has a quick-release function, and there are heat dissipation ribs on the barrel, which are designs that are generally not used by aviation machine guns.
Even more excessively... He also has a bayonet seat! Bayonet seat! It is already too much for a machine gun to have a bayonet mount, and as an aviation machine gun actually designed a bayonet seat? Burton this boy was particularly deliberate when designing this gun, according to my idea, he used the opportunity of designing an aircraft machine gun to give this cargo Amway to the Army...
You see, .345wsl this bullet, it is not in the middle of the power?
You see, this pistol-type grip, and the front handguard, is it suitable for a single soldier?
You see, this double ponytail, double the capacity, double the happiness, the crosshairs can also be centered, does not affect the accuracy.
Taste, you taste, is the inner taste of the assault rifle coming out?