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short-stroke gas piston Short stroke gas piston and bolt carrier group, from a gas piston AR-15. With a short-stroke or tappet system, the piston moves separately from the bolt group. It may directly push [12] the bolt group parts, as in the M1 carbine, or operate through a connecting rod or assembly, as in the Armalite AR-18 or the SKS.
Bore evacuator on an M1 Abrams. The evacuator is a passive device generally consisting of a ring of holes drilled into the barrel, surrounded by a cylindrical pressure reservoir that is sealed to the barrel's surface. When the gun is fired, high pressure gas generated by the burning propellant pushes the projectile forward.
The Avco-Lycoming AGT1500 is a gas turbine engine.It is the main powerplant of the M1 Abrams series of tanks.The engine was originally designed and produced by the Lycoming Turbine Engine Division in the Stratford Army Engine Plant.
M1 Abrams Block III Tank Test Bed (M1 TTB) was a prototype built in 1983 as part of TACOM's Abrams Block III program (whose purview was to eventually create the M1A3), featuring an unmanned turret with a 44-caliber 120 mm M256 smoothbore gun, three crew members sitting side by side inside an armored capsule at the front of the hull and a suite ...
A gas cylinder quad, also known as a gas cylinder bundle, is a group of high pressure cylinders mounted on a transport and storage frame. There are commonly 16 cylinders, each of about 50 litres capacity mounted upright in four rows of four, on a square base with a square plan frame with lifting points on top and may have fork-lift slots in the ...
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The M1 Garand with important parts labeled. The M1 rifle is a .30 caliber, gas-operated, eight-shot clip-fed, semi-automatic rifle. [38] It is 43.6 inches (1,107 mm) long and it weighs about 9.5 pounds (4.31 kg). [39] The M1's safety catch is located at the front of the trigger guard, easily operated by the trigger finger. It is engaged when it ...