Drum magazine for large-caliber ammunition
AssigneeRheinmetall GmbH
InventorsKlaus-Dieter Panhke, Wilfried Becker
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Abstract
An improved drum magazine for large caliber ammunition. The drum magazine has a peripheral cover in which a plurality of extracting openings are disposed. An extraction mechanism is adapted to extract via the extraction opening the radially outermost of a plurality of juxtaposed cartridges radially arranged in each ammunition chamber of a plurality of ammunition chambers exchangeably mounted in said drum magazine. The ammunition chambers are independently exchangeably mounted in the drum magazine. Each ammunition chamber defines a storage space for storing a plurality of radially juxtaposed cartridges therein.
Claims11
An improved drum magazine for large caliber ammunition having an outer peripheral cover in which at least one extraction opening is disposed and including extraction means adapted to selectively extract the outermost of a plurality of cartridges disposed in said drum magazine, the improvement comprising in combination, a plurality of ammunition chambers exchangeably mounted in said drum magazine independently from each other, each ammunition chamber defining a storage space for a plurality of radially juxtaposed cartridges.
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