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• GIAT 30
  ...DEFA cannon, the revolver chamber is electrically operated, rather than [[gas operated]], improving both reliability and rate of fire.
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• Gatling gun
  ...later, Gatling-type weapons were invented that diverted a fraction of the gas pressure from the chamber to turn the barrels. Later still, [[electric moto ...2 machine gun]] and [[Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23|GSh-6-23]], which uses a [[gas-operated]] drive system.
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• Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-301
  The GSh-301 is a single-barreled, gas-operated cannon weighing 46 kg (101 lb). Unlike many postwar cann
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• Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23
  |action=[[Gatling gun|Gatling]], [[Gas-operated reloading|Gas-operated]] ...atic system. Although the engineering difficulties involved in producing a gas-operated rotary cannon with such a high rate of fire are considerable, they
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• Hispano-Suiza HS.404
  ...s widely considered the best aircraft cannon of its kind. The HS.404 was [[gas-operated]]. When the projectile passes a port cut into the barrel, the hot *'''Operation''': [[gas operated]]
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• Ho-301 cannon
  ...nd the pressure rises until the aluminium cup bursts, allowing the exhaust gas to rush through the exhaust holes pushing the projectile forward. The prope
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• Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30
  |action=[[Gas-operated reloading|Gas actuated]], electrically fired ....uk/GSh-6-30.htm ]</ref> Unlike most modern American rotary cannons, it is gas-operated rather than electric, allowing it to "spin up" to maximum rate of
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• Interdynamics MKS
  The '''MKS''' is a gas-operated select fire assault rifle chambered for the 5.56 mm NATO caliber a
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• Limbo (weapon)
  The range of the mortars was controlled by opening gas vents from 400 to a maximum of 1,000 yards (366 and 910 m). The weapon was
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• M242 Bushmaster
  Unlike most automatic [[firearm]]s, the M242 does not depend on gas or [[recoil]] to actuate its firing system. Instead, it uses a 1.0 [[Horsep
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...ng blanks, a large [[blank-firing adapter]] (BFA) must be used to keep the gas pressure high enough to allow the action to cycle. The adapter is very dist
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• M4 cannon
  |action= gas operation
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• M61 Vulcan
  ...perate the gun, and electric operation offered reliability superior to a [[gas operated]] weapon. With multiple barrels the rate of fire per barrel could ...4''' (called '''M130''' in Army service), is [[gas-operated]], tapping gun gas from three of the six barrels to operate the mechanism. The self-powered Vu
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• MK 103 cannon
  ...1 in that it used a combination of gas and recoil operation. After firing, gas pressure serves to unlock the breech, while barrel recoil was used to cycle
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• MK 108 cannon
  Normally, gas-operated or delayed-blowback mechanisms are used in automatic weapons of ri ...hamber are limited by the stresses the sliding motion, executed under high gas pressure, puts on the case. To keep these within limits, the bolt needs to
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• Mark 14 torpedo
  ...to explode some distance below the ship. When the weapon explodes, a huge gas-bubble is produced, and when it reaches the hull, the keel suffers catastro
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• Mark 18 torpedo
  .../ref> did not deliver hoped-for performance and gave off too much hydrogen gas<ref>Blair, p.280.</ref> (a hazard for fire shipboard, and potentially letha
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• Mauser BK-27
  The BK 27 is a gas-operated cannon firing a new series of 27x145 mm projectiles with a typical ...ance, breech-cylinder gun operated by a fully automatic electrically fired gas-operated system at a selective rate of 1000 or 1700 rounds per minute.
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• Nagant M1895
  ...mbered for a proprietary cartridge, [[7.62x38R]], and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when the gun was cocked to Non-gas seal [[revolver]]s have a small gap between the cylinder and the barrel; th
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• Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23
  ...The AM-23 was used in [[turret]]ed installations for [[bomber]]s. It was a gas-operated weapon, weighed 43 kg (95 lb) and was capable of a substantially h
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