The Barnitzke machine gun is a prototype machine gun of late World War II German origin. The weapon uses an unusual
delayed blowback
Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gas created by the ignition of the propellant charge.
Several blowback systems exist wi ...
operation, where during firing the bolt opening is delayed by the rotational inertia of two
flywheel
A flywheel is a mechanical device which uses the conservation of angular momentum to store rotational energy; a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the square of its rotational speed. In particular, as ...
s, which are driven by a rack and pinion arrangement on the bolt carrier.
See also
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List of World War II firearms of Germany
:''Note: Weapons listed were made by or for Germany and do not include captured foreign equipment.
Pistols
Rifles
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Machine guns
Submachine guns
Anti-tank weapons
Other weapons
See also
* List of equipment used in World War II
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MG 42, successor
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MG 81 machine gun
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MGD PM-9
The MGD PM-9 was a French open bolt submachine gun, designed in the late 1940s or early 1950s by Louis Debuit and manufactured in small numbers by French firm Merlin and Gerin in the 1950s. The PM9 was an unusual design in three different ways: ...
, an SMG with a flywheel delay
References
7.92×57mm Mauser machine guns
Delayed blowback firearms
General-purpose machine guns
Machine guns of Germany
World War II infantry weapons of Germany
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