This is the Geissele Nighthunter mount for the M240.
It flips to the side to facilitate barrel changes.
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Yet again Geissele comes out with a product that makes me say “well goddamn, I didn’t think that was possible”
It’s, it’s, it’s beautiful!!!!!!!!!
it would be more interesting to see how the heat from a belt fed barrel is mitigated.
Bill Geissele is a brillant guy, a giant in the industry
All very cute, BUT…
I hope nobody expects some poor, already overloaded grunt, is going out onto the two-way rifle range carrying that thing; it needs wheels. The MaG-58 / M-240 is awkward enough to carry in its basic form, let alone loaded up with all this Gucci stuff.
On the other hand, mounted on a proper tripod, surveyed in with a number of other guns to provide interlocking fire in defensive mode, or even as flank support for a deliberate attack, it is a whole different thing; ditto almost any other decent machine-gun since the MG-08.
As the “control” gun in a sustained-fire machine-gun platoon? Maybe.
After the first couple of rounds have left the muzzle, how stable is the image? The residual muzzle flash WILL play merry Hell with the image and the vibration will not be kind to the electronics.
How about we go back and look at the elegant solution of mounting optics on an auxiliary adapter on the cradle on the TRIPOD, as practised over seventy-five years ago?
Well, I can’t imagine that they just decided to design and build this out of the blue… It’s probably a fairly good assumption that they were solicited by an organization that had a need for such an item.
I’d wager the system is intended for vehicle based weapons
Reminds me of what a pain in the ass it was when I was carrying a m249 or m60 with a pvs4, not so fun… but off a tripod, this definitely has potential.
Exactly. I think it’s neat but our 240s are usually mounted to trucks and we already have other solutions. I wouldn’t want to carry it, but I mean who’s room clearing with a 240 anyway? I’m sure some units would find it handy.
Got to be the baller-est MAG ever setup. 10 more guns worth of cash in the optics/mounts. That platform could definitely benefit from a feed tray upgrade though.
The heckler Koch L7s with the upgraded feed tray are bloody awful, the merest sign of mud or crap and round detent seize up the plain feed trays are more reliable