BELT-POWERED AUTOMATIC WEAPON MAGAZINE Russian patent published in 2022 - IPC F41A9/79 

FIELD: military technology.

SUBSTANCE: belt-powered automatic weapon magazine contains a body divided by vertical partitions into sections, in which a single cartridge belt consisting of movable links with shanks holding the cartridge case at the location of the groove is laid with vertical sections hanging along the back wall of each section, a neck fastened to the weapon, and, according to the number of sections, fixing nodes in the horizontal position of the cartridges of the vertical sections of the cartridge belt in the form of fixed on the back wall of the section, or on a carcass frame mounted on the back wall, at the location of the vertical sections of the tape, pairs of hooks with jaws in the form of recesses. One hook of each pair is installed at the place of the projectile part of the cartridge, and the other at the place of the cartridge sleeve, the profile of the hook recess for the projectile part is formed by conjugated arcs of two circles with centers lying on the same vertical axis.

EFFECT: ensuring the reliability of shooting.

6 cl, 4 dwg