Guns and military vehicles

Per usual, Gassy Crassy’s ignorance outstrips basic common sense.

“The Krummlauf (English: "curved barrel") is a bent barrel attachment for the Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44) rifledeveloped by Germany in World War II. The curved barrel included a periscopesighting device for shooting around corners from a safe position.”

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Quence said:
“The Krummlauf (English: "curved barrel") is a bent barrel attachment for the Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44) rifledeveloped by Germany in World War II. The curved barrel included a periscopesighting device for shooting around corners from a safe position.”
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and it was virtually useless on the battlefield bc the bullet started to tumble after leaving the barrel, making it very inaccurate
plus the barrel wore out very quickly. there was a mythbusters about it.....
 
ZZZandeRRR said:
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Well if this is true, then use the regular bottleneck case and throw heavier projectiles at higher speed.
100 gr 556 traveling at 3000 ft/sec like a 62gr? That would solve the long range issues out of the 16 inch barrel for the average infantryman, Make the DMR 18-20 inch barrel have some real hitting power at 800+ yards and help with stablity, and of course make the 10.5 the perfect CQB/intermediate range 250 yards short-tay.

But depends on what pressures it runs at. Bottleneck cases run at higher pressure since the pressure is directed towards a narrow opening. I would guess they would have to beef up the chamber, and don't know how that will affect the gas system, probably overheat it resulting in gas tube failures being more frequent. But that's acceptable. Sustained rapid fire, burst, I would imagine it wouldn't do so well.
 
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