Chassecagno

The Chassecagno, officially designated the Fusel Seopsàne Mođele 2890 is a Taminil light machine gun or machine rifle designed by Jerome Boullé and produced by the Perigios Arsenal. It was adopted by the Taminil armed forces, the Enzimian Army, Colonial Pacification Force, and Aerial Corps. It saw widespread use in the Great War.

Design

The weapon was designed around the 7.5mm Grellaux (7.5×53mmR) cartridge, the standard rifle cartridge of Taminily, which has a significant rim, which presents problems when feeding from box magazines, and so its characteristic pan magazine was created to circumvent those problems. The version adopted by Enzim, chambered in 7mm D&L, a rimless cartridge, still utilise the pan magazine.
the Chassecagno uses a long-stroke gas piston and a tilting bolt. Early prototypes used a muzzle cap and gas trap operating mechanism, but the final design uses a conventional gas port. The Chassecagno was the first successful gun to have a gas port drilled directly into the barrel. The gun is select fire and fires from an open bolt at a rate of around 600 rounds per minute.
Early examples had a finned barrel and a fine-adjustable ladder rear sight, however, during the Great War, the design would be updated to be more economical, changing to a perforated tube steel barrel shroud and tangent aperture rear sight.

Item type

Weapon, Ranged

Creation Date

2890

Weight

9.6 kg (unloaded)

Dimensions

1270 mm