Madsen-Saetter Machine Gun Ammo Can
Madsen-Saetter machine gun | |
Type | General-purpose machine gun |
Place of origin |
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Service history | |
In service | Not used |
Production history | |
Designer | Eric Larsen-Saetter |
Designed | 1952 |
Manufacturer | Dansk Rekyl Riffel Syndikat A/S |
Produced | 1952-1960 |
Specifications | |
Weight | 11.6 kg (25.57 lb) |
Length | 1,290 mm (50.8 in) |
Barrel length | 660 mm (26.0 in) |
Cartridge | 7.62x51 NATO |
Rate of fire | 700 - 1000 rounds/min |
Muzzle velocity | 838 m/s (2,749 ft/s) |
Feed system | belt |
Sights | blade foresight and a tangentnotch rearsight |
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The Madsen-Saetter machine gun was a Danish general-purpose machine gun deigned in the early 1950s. It wasdesigned by Eric Larsen-Saetter. The only customer for thenew Madsen-Saetter GPMG was Indonesia, which also obtained a manufacturing license and produced these gu-ns for domestic use at the Pindad factory.
The Madsen-Saetter universal machine gun is a gas operated, air-cooled, belt-fed automatic weapon which fires from an openbolt. The barrel is quick-removable. The Madsen-SaetterGPMG utilizes the long-stroke gas system with the gas piston located below the barrel. The gas block is fitted with a
manual gas regulator that permits adjustments for various conditi-ons and rates of fire. Locking is achieved by two lateral flaps, installed in the bolt and forced outwards and into lockingrecesses in the receiver walls by the firing pin – a system, basically similar to that of Russian Degtyarov machine guns, with minor detailed improvements. The gun fires from openbolt, in automatic mode only. The feed uses non-disintegratingsteel belts with open pockets. Each belt consists of 50-round pieces that can be assembled together using a cartridge as aninterlink to provide a bigger capacity. The feed is of the push-through type, with a mechanism basically similar to that of theGerman MG 42. The gun is fitted with a wooden shoulderstock, a pistol grip and a folding bipod. DISA also produced a series of tripod mountings for this gun.
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