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Drawings of the new Chinese GPMG called the QJY-201.

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Arre bhaiyya, nai samjhenge saare log patents yahan, vyakha bhi dena padta hai.

So these are the drawings of China's newest machine gun; QJY-201. What's so special about this?

In QJY-201 the barrel assembly is mounted with springs and the whole assembly can reciprocate freely in it's longitudinal axis. And when the bolt carrier recoils then after ejecting the case it catches on this barrel assembly. So in the remaining distance both barrel assembly and bolt carrier group recoils together. This increase the recoiling mass by almost a factor of 3; making the recoil impulse much more smoother.

Before this machine gun only two other currently active machine guns had successfully utilized this system of Short Recoil Impulse Averaging; one being General Dynamics .338 MMG and other being SIG's NGSW-MG.
 

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Drawings of the new Chinese GPMG called the QJY-201.

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Arre bhaiyya, nai samjhenge saare log patents yahan, vyakha bhi dena padta hai.

So these are the drawings of China's newest machine gun; QJY-201. What's so special about this?

In QJY-201 the barrel assembly is mounted with springs and the whole assembly can reciprocate freely in it's longitudinal axis. And when the bolt carrier recoils then after ejecting the case it catches on this barrel assembly. So in the remaining distance both barrel assembly and bolt carrier group recoils together. This increase the recoiling mass by almost a factor of 3; making the recoil impulse much more smoother.

Before this machine gun only two other currently active machine guns had successfully utilized this system of Short Recoil Impulse Averaging; one being General Dynamics .338 MMG and other being SIG's NGSW-MG.
it's a PKM derivative design, with Kalashnikov style bolt with fixed firing pin and inversed bolt carrier assembly. here they seemed to have swapped positions of the belt drive from right to left and ejection from left to right side from base pkm design

and seems it is coming with a gas regulator of some sort

overall nice design
 

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it's a PKM derivative design, with Kalashnikov style bolt with fixed firing pin and inversed bolt carrier assembly. here they seemed to have swapped positions of the belt drive from right to left and ejection from left to right side from base pkm design

and seems it is coming with a gas regulator of some sort

overall nice design
It has a distinct advantage over any similar indian design if it exists, that t it will probably get inducted
 

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it's a PKM derivative design, with Kalashnikov style bolt with fixed firing pin and inversed bolt carrier assembly. here they seemed to have swapped positions of the belt drive from right to left and ejection from left to right side from base pkm design

and seems it is coming with a gas regulator of some sort

overall nice design
Hello, edajima heihachi wants to know .
What is a diffenrce between gpmg and a mmg .
I know what are light machine gun and Hmg .
In india Lmg is bren , insas and negev .
Hmg is m2hb and nsv mostly.
What about indian made gpmg and mmg ?
 

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Hello, edajima heihachi wants to know .
What is a diffenrce between gpmg and a mmg .
I know what are light machine gun and Hmg .
In india Lmg is bren , insas and negev .
Hmg is m2hb and nsv mostly.
What about indian made gpmg and mmg ?
MMG is an outdated word that is no longer in general use - We still use it for a machine gun that is tripod mounted for use in bunkers etc, but firing same ammo as GMPG. Most militaries have just GMPG and HMG, we have tripod mounted mags for ground troops too in emplaced positions.
 

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MMG is an outdated word that is no longer in general use - We still use it for a machine gun that is tripod mounted for use in bunkers etc, but firing same ammo as GMPG. Most militaries have just GMPG and HMG, we have tripod mounted mags for ground troops too in emplaced positions.
So in essence we use mmgs
 

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Hello, edajima heihachi wants to know .
What is a diffenrce between gpmg and a mmg .
I know what are light machine gun and Hmg .
In india Lmg is bren , insas and negev .
Hmg is m2hb and nsv mostly.
What about indian made gpmg and mmg ?
go to forgotten weapons youthoob and search there, some vdos already explaining it
 

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Hello, edajima heihachi wants to know .
What is a diffenrce between gpmg and a mmg .
I know what are light machine gun and Hmg .
In india Lmg is bren , insas and negev .
Hmg is m2hb and nsv mostly.
What about indian made gpmg and mmg ?
We call a small calibre machine gun a light machine gun. But then M249 is also a LMG? No, it's a squad automatic weapon. Then M27 must be SAW too? No, it's infantry automatic rifle. Why? Because it uses magazine. Ok, gotcha. Then RPK also must be an infantry automatic rifle, as it used magazine. No, no, it's a light machine gun.

Ultimately it'll fook your mind so much that you'll shoot yourself with a machine gun. And that too without asking what type of MG it is.

The problem with these terminologies is that the line that used to separate them has blurred with time.

For example, earlier all 7.62x51mm firing guns were heavier than 5.56x45mm. So it was defacto that 7.62x51mm would be called MMG (coz heavier) and GMPG (coz they can be used in multiple roles). And similarly 5.56x45mm would be either LMG (coz lighter than GMPG/MMG) or SAW (if belt fed) or AR (if mag fed).
But then came things like Knight's Armament Company's Light Assault Machine Gun and FN's Evolys...a machine gun weighing like a 5.56x45mm LMG but firing GMPG/MMG's 7.62x51mm cartridge. So now what would you call these?

So the bottom line is, except for HMG; whose definition is simply more than 9-10 mm and less than autocannon every other terminology is very fluid.
 

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yeah the mag variant mounted on a tripod.

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Ye ek MMG hai, jo tripod se fyre ki jaati hai .
Isko kam se kam 2 jawan chelate hain.
Calibre: 7.62 ×51 mm.
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Ye ek HMG hai, isko bhi kam se kam 2 jawan chelate hain . 12.7×108 mm
Use bhi tripod se fyre karte hain
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Ye Ek LMG hai, isko zarurat padne pr mtra ek jawan bhi ek jagah se dusri jagah le ja sakta hai aur fyre karsakta hai . Ise ek bipod se fyre kiya jata hai
Calibre : 7.62 ×51 mm
Ye ek GPMG bhi ban sakti hai. .
 
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