MIL-F-45598A, MILITARY SPECIFICATION: FEEDER, DELINKING, AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN: MAU-56/A (20-JAN-1994)

MIL-F-45598A, MILITARY SPECIFICATION: FEEDER, DELINKING, AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN: MAU-56/A (20-JAN-1994)., This specification covers one type of machine gun driven feed mechanism for ammunition belted with M13 links for use on the 7.62mm, M134 (GAU-2B/A), machine gun. The feeder pulls the link-belted ammunition, strips the ammunition from the links, ejects the empty links, and feeds the delinked ammunition into the machine gun. The feeder includes an electrically operated mechanism for clearing ammunition from the feeder sprocket prior to the transfer of ammunition to the machine gun when the machine gun trigger is released.