Ammunition Magazine and Loading Device Thereof

A method for feeding of ammunition belts into a machine gun, each of said ammunition belts including a plurality of linked ammunition cartridges, the method comprising the procedures of:

• providing a plurality of ammunition magazines, each operative for containing a respective one of said ammunition belts, each of said ammunition magazines comprising:
• a front opening respective to said machine gun enabling a leading end of said contained ammunition belt to be accessible for continuous feeding of said machine gun and for linking with a trailing end of another of said ammunition belts;
• a rear opening respective to said machine gun enabling a trailing end of said contained ammunition belt to be accessible for linking with a leading end of another of said ammunition belts;
• and
• two ledges internally projecting from each respective side of at least one ammunition magazine of said plurality of ammunition magazines, for supporting selected cartridges of respective said ammunition cartridges, wherein said respective contained ammunition belt is folded vertically inside said ammunition magazine, and wherein the folded portions of said respective belt are hanging from and supported by said selected cartridges:
• loading the leading end of a first of said ammunition belts contained in a first respective one of said ammunition magazines into said machine gun;
• and
• linking the trailing end of said first ammunition belt contained in said first ammunition magazine with the leading end of a second of said ammunition belts contained in a second respective one of said ammunition magazines.

A method for feeding ammunition belts into a machine gun, each of said ammunition belts including a plurality of linked ammunition cartridges, each of said ammunition belts is contained in a respective ammunition magazine of a plurality of ammunition magazines, the method comprising the procedures of:

• supporting selected cartridges of each of said of ammunition belts by two ledges, each of said ledges internally projecting from each side of said each respective ammunition magazine;
• folding each of said plurality of ammunition belts vertically inside said each respective ammunition magazine, wherein the folded portions of said each ammunition belt are hanging and supported by said selected cartridges;
• loading into said machine gun a leading end of a first ammunition belt of said ammunition belts through a front opening disposed in a respective first ammunition magazine of said plurality of ammunition magazines;
• and
• linking the trailing end of said first ammunition belt through a rear opening disposed in said respective first ammunition magazine with the leading end of a second ammunition belt of said ammunition belts through a front opening disposed in a respective second ammunition magazine of said plurality of ammunition magazines.