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CODE – 04-132-931

NAME – Colt MG 40 Fixed

NAME (NATIVE) – Colt Light Aircraft Machine Gun (MG 40) Fixed

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN – USA

DATE OF MANUFACTURE – 1931

CALIBER – 7.62x63mm (30-06) *

OVERALL LENGTH – 99.1 cm (39 in)

BARREL LENGTH – 60.7 cm (23.9 in)

RIFLING (TYPE & TWIST) – 4 Grooves, Right-hand twist, 1 turn in 25.4 cm (10 in)

LOAD – M1 Full jacketed Pointed Spitzer

BULLET DIAMETER – 7.82 mm (0.308 in)

BULLET WEIGHT – 11.34 g (175 grains)

MUZZLE VELOCITY – 807 m/s (2647 fps)

MUZZLE ENERGY – 3692 j (2723 m/s)

WEIGHT (EMPTY) – 9.07 kg (20 lb) with operating slide

WEIGHT (LOADED) – 12.62 kg (27 lb 13 oz) with operating slide, loaded with 100 round linked belt

WEIGHT OF SPARE BARREL – 1.59 kg (3 lb 8 oz)

SIGHTS – None

EFFECTIVE RANGE – 800 m (875 yards)

OPERATION – Recoil with gas booster, fires from closed bolt

TYPE OF FIRE – Full automatic

RATE OF FIRE – 200 rpm

CYCLIC ROF – 1000 to 1200 rpm

FEED DEVICE – M1 disintegrating metallic link belt

FEED DEVICE WEIGHT (EMPTY) – 0.44 kg (15.5 oz) per 100 links

FEED DEVICE WEIGHT (LOADED) – 3.55 kg (7 lb 13 oz) 100 round linked belt

BASIC AMMUNITION LOAD – four-100 rd belts (400 rounds)

LOAD WEIGHT – 14.2 kg (31 lb 5 oz)

MANUFACTURER – Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, Hartford, Connecticut

STATUS – Obsolete

SERVICE – Commercial sales

*For specification ballistics. Weapon was available commercially in many calibers.

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