You've summed up my personal opinion of it. It fires from an open bolt. Not good in the terrain we deal in. The way the open bolt feed system works, you actually have to break a round off of the belt to go to a ready to fire condition. There are teeth on the front of the bolt that grab the round, and then you lock the safety. When you come back in the fob you have to take a long knife or screwdriver and bang on the (often high explosive anti-personnel) round to clear the weapon.
Driving around like this is dangerous as there have been reports of the bolt riding forward from slam fire (banging around) conditions. However, the gun itself is so touchy to small particles of dirt and dust that you don't want to ride around with the bolt forward for fear that should you take contact you won't be able to get the bolt to the rear of the gun. This is additionally problematic with the open bolt design allowing too much access to the internals of the gun while we're moving if you do have it back. A fun gun on the range. A decent weapon in the emplaced defense. Not something that I feel can be relied upon as an offensive weapon on a mobile platform. > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:33 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Military men: the MK-19 > > Gentlemen, > > > > I have no personal experience with the MK-19 fully automatic > 40mm grenade launcher that Tim mentioned earlier, but in what > I have seen it looks like a poorly-engineered and unsafe POS > that doesn't deserve to be operated by US military personnel. > > > > Is this your opinion as well, or did I miss my mark? > > > > Respectfully, > > > > Adam Phillip Churvis > > President > > Productivity Enhancement > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281788 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
