M922/M922A1 40mm Dummy Rounds

(66 total words in this text)
(4299 Reads)

These rounds are totally inert and are used to check gun functioning and to train gun crews. They are issued only to armorers. The M922 dummy cartridges are joined with M16A2 links. Each MK 19 is allowed one 10-round belt (DODAC B472), which is packed in an M2A1 metal box. These inert cartridges are used to check weapon function and for crew training.

[ Back to Weapons | Primary Sources Archive index ]

Military History

Forum Posts

Military Polls

[ Results | Polls ]

Votes: 366

This Day in History

1865: Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.

1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.

More...

M922/M922A1 40mm Dummy Rounds

Should U.S. military agencies have the power to assassinate terrorists?