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01-07-2012, 04:29 PM
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One truly wierd small arm...
Oddly enough, I stumbled into this after I had played a bit of Duke Nukem (hail to the King, Baby!
 ) I had thought "I wonder if anyone would be crazy enough to actually build a three-barrelled assault rifle/machine gun." And as it turns out thanks to a mention from a poster on IMFDB.org, there in fact was.Gentlemen, I present to you, the Soviet Prizor 3b and it's variant, the Soviet TKB-0591... I'll have to look up some more info on these, but these were apparently developed around 1966 or so. The idea was to develop an assault rifle/machine gun that had a better hit-to-kill probability, by firing three rounds at a time with each pull of the trigger, or so I'm told. Yes, that's not a gimmick...it's three barrels, with three separate chambers all built into one platform with a 60 round magazine.  As far as is known, it was only experimental. Still, I can't imagine what the weight must've been, or how much of a pain in the ass maintenance would be if you had three separate barrels and chambers to clean. Oh and apologies if the images are too large, hope it's not a problem.
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01-07-2012, 06:40 PM
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I meant to add that the cartridge ejection is a bit weird too. Apparently, the cartridges eject BEHIND the magazine and downward, so to make it more ambidextrous. I believe it was designed around the 7.62x39 cartridge, but could be wrong.
Still looks like a hell of a handful though.
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01-07-2012, 07:15 PM
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I'd love to see the inside of that magazine. It looks about as long as the Hungarian 20-rounders... triple-stack?
- C.
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01-07-2012, 08:01 PM
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01-08-2012, 04:33 PM
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Beauty, eh? Though I'd want it mounted on a tripod if I were going to fire it on full auto, even in bursts...
The bottom picture, for some reason, made me think Aliens .
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01-08-2012, 05:22 PM
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This was the Soviet answer to the US Army's Project Salvo from the 1950s/1960s. You might get some more info by looking for Pribor with the term 'meroka' included in the search (meroka is a German term - MeRoKa from Mehrrohrkanone, meaning multi-barrelled gun).
It might also help to look for it with reference to the Nordenfelt Gun. There's been lots of speculation about the recoil. Despite the weapons overall weight, the recoil from 3 barrels firing at the same time cannot possibly increase your chance to hit and the entire purpose of the weapon was to increase the hit chance! Here's one thread with a few more images. http://www.defensivecarry.com/forum/...ult-rifle.html P.S. I believe the second model of the Pribor had forward ejection of the cases, I only remembered that after having another look at the photos!
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01-08-2012, 05:42 PM
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 And I agree, I think I'd want this sucker mounted on a tripod, or be firing it from a prone position on a bipod before firing anything other than 3 round bursts. Though since this is designed to fire 3 rounds simultaneously, would that really be considered a "burst" or "single shot"?  Recoil either way must have truly been a bitch for staying on target though.
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