Barrel-mounted device for a firearm

Abstract

The invention relates to rifled and smoothbore firearms and can be used in barrel-mounted devices for firing in the air and in the water. The inventive barrel-mounted device for firearms comprises a unit for joining to the barrel, a cap and a starting part with gas vents. The starting part bore is the continuation of the barrel bore, and there are N≧1 compartments formed between the casing and the starting part. Each compartment includes at least two gas vents and provides the possibility of gas exhaust from the starting part bore to the compartment through the first of the mentioned gas vents and gas exhaust from the compartment to the starting part bore through the second gas vent. The compartment length is 0.5-3.0 of the bore caliber and in the cross-section plane of the barrel-mounted device the minimal cross-section area of N≧1 compartments, designed for the gas flow between gas vents, ranges within 0.4-4.5 of the barrel bore area. The barrel-mounted device can comprise a muzzle compartment, which projects beyond the muzzle face of the starting part and has a front wall with a muzzle opening. The diameter of the muzzle opening equals to 1.05-1.2 of the barrel bore caliber. The said invention makes it possible to reduce recoil momentum, shot blast and muzzle flash while firing in the air, as well as to reduce recoil momentum and hydraulic impact in the course of underwater firing.

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