Talk:Muzzle booster

Vicker's recoil booster

I was pretty much winging it on the Vickers booster description, as I can't find a good cutaway drawing to work from, just pictures of the outsides, such as http://www.smallarmsreview.com/pdf/april04.pdf. If anyone can find me pictures to work from, I'll try to make the description more accurate, and maybe even mock up a line drawing. scot 15:42, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm working from a copy of Janes Infantry weapons 1976, bear with me. GraemeLeggett 08:24, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

The animation shows the barrel moving relative to the outer cover of the booster, so that's all I needed to see; I'll fix the text to clarify. scot 14:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

"muzzle booster is the antithesis of the muzzle brake" This is not true. Newton's second law of motion states that "To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction". If we talk about a closed system: if nothing exits or enters a system it cannot make a net movement. Only things exciting the gun are bullet, gases and casing. Recoil reduction or addition has to be related to some of these or it doesn't happen. This muzzle booster doesn't have to change the direction of the gases nor the bullet, so it's not changing the recoil in any other way than slowing the gases. This may affect recoil only if the gases are driven backwards or forwards after they exit the muzzle booster. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:708:30:1220:91CF:79BD:85EC:1AA6 (talk) 14:47, 6 December 2012 (UTC)