Talk:Breda M37

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BetacommandBot 01:48, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"The mechanical energy required to perform this function substantially reduced the rate of fire, and the weapon tended to jam whenever a case was reinserted even slightly out of line" The mechanism requires no added mechanical energy or complicate mechanisms. The same bolt that push the case in the chamber, pull it back in position when it's fired. It's by far the simplest way a strip fed mechanism can function. Moreover, since the spent case is back in the strip, it can not interfere with the strip itself during the ejection, so the weapon is more reliable this way, and requires a smaller ejection port, allowing less dirt to enter in the mechanism.

"It also meant that in the event the metal clips had to be reused, the gunner's assistant had to first remove the empty cases from the strips" As you can see, there was a simple charger mechanism, that did this work at roughly the same rate the weapon can fire http://www.history.com/videos/breda-machine-gun-fires-from-tray#breda-machine-gun-fires-from-tray , however this was a second line occupation, in the first line, the gunner's assistant saw only strip already charged and packed, and no loose cartridges. Why nobody cares about how the gunner's assistant of a metallic belt feed MG can reconstruct a charged belt from it's pieces? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.55.229.162 (talk) 10:49, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, most ammunition belts of the time weren't "disintegrating" type belts, anyway (which are not reassembled), and while they were intended to be reloaded at some point, one thing you didn't have to do was to strip spent cartridge cases from the damn things before you could reload them. There is honestly no good reason for that particular feature. There just isn't. It was the best machine gun the Italian Army had during the war, no doubt, but that doesn't mean that it was anything more than mediocre at best.--172.191.224.176 (talk) 04:41, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Really do you think that there was something like manually reloading an MG42 belt? while the weapon was shooting maybe? Simply, reloading the belt/tray was not the occupation of the "gunner's assistant", nor for the Breda 37, or for every other MGs. Given that, the fate of the spent cartridges is a not a problem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.235.229.86 (talk) 18:03, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]