HEAVY MACHINE GUN Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: small arms weaponry meant to hit land and air targets. SUBSTANCE: heavy machine gun includes receiver with easily replaced barrel mounted with clearance in box and mount interjoined in shooting plane in three points. Front joint comes in the form of clamp put on barrel and single-side upper clip to make it interference fit relative to barrel by means of fixing arm. Cam surface for fixing arm starting in cut on clip. Center and rear joints are made on machine gun box. Center joint comes in the form of single-sided lower support which carries barrel journal. On the rear machine gun is put on mount. EFFECT: simplified design of heavy machine gun. 1 cl, 2 dwg