Vietnam produces remote-controlled machine guns

The Institute of Weapons under the General Department of Defense Industry of Vietnam has just successfully tested a 12.7mm remote-controlled machine gun manufactured by the Institute.

The 12.7mm remote-controlled anti-aircraft gun complex is a product that integrates modern equipment such as a multi-function control stand, central computer, and day-night surveillance camera, researched and manufactured by officers and engineers of the Automatic Control Department - Institute of Weapons.

The 12.7mm gun can be deployed on many different military vehicles such as ships and boats using a remote control system combined with a target designation camera, bringing the sight line directly on the gun body to the control screen for the gunner to aim and shoot.

Vietnam's 12.7mm remote-controlled gun.

This remote-controlled weapon system has just been successfully tested at Mieu Mon shooting range. The acceptance council has assessed that the remote-controlled 12.7mm gun platform researched and designed by the Naval Technical Institute ensures safety, stable operation, accuracy and efficiency.

The original 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun was produced by the Soviet Union and provided to Vietnam. According to the design, the gunner uses a gas extraction system with three devices including a reverse lock and two horizontal pins rotating around a vertical locking axis, attached to the shell shield.

The barrel is grooved to increase cooling capacity, and is fitted with a large recoil reduction device. The ammunition belt of the gun is designed with 50 rounds, and for every 5 or 3 piercing rounds, there is a flame bullet inserted to guide the bullet when shooting at night or in low light environments.

The incendiary bullets help the gunner observe the trajectory of the bullets to adjust the aiming line in time. This type of bullet also has the same lethal effect as the piercing bullet. The 12.7mm bullet can also penetrate 15mm steel at a distance of 500m. According to the original design, the gunner's crew consists of 3 people. When moving, one person carries the gun body, one person carries (or pulls) the base, and one person carries the bullets.

A complete gun also includes a tripod (for anti-aircraft use) or wheeled mount (for infantry use), a telescopic sight (for anti-aircraft use) and a removable telescopic recoil reduction device.

Although still very effective in combat, the 12.7mm gun has a major drawback that slows down the speed of attacking the target - that is, reloading by hand. To increase combat capability, in addition to the ship-based version, Vietnam has successfully manufactured a device that loads ammunition separately into the gun's belt.

For preservation, bullets are packed separately in iron boxes, and only when used are they loaded into the belt. The process of manually loading bullets into the belt takes a lot of time. Using a bullet loading machine significantly increases the speed of loading separate bullets into the belt (loading by machine only takes 1 minute compared to more than 20 minutes when loading by hand).

The machine includes: Body, ammunition loading part and belt pulling part with total weight of 5kg. The machine can be used in training, live firing exercises or combat readiness.

According to Baodatviet