UNDERSTANDING ABOUT BALANCED AMMUNITION DISCHARGE SYSTEM

 

B.A.D.S

BALANCED AMMUNITION DISCHARGE SYSTEM

MAG 58 with BADS

MG 42 with BADS

BADS is Known as called Balanced Ammunition Discharge System, in past decades the left side feeding ammunition boxes will cause problem. The left side offset load in the feeding boxes make the gun widely and difficulty to control.

The best solution to date has been to provide the machine gunner with an assistant to hand feed the linked belt, and these un widely bags have never been user friendly.

The BADS connects to the machine guns box mounting features located on the left side of the weapon. The main advantage of the BADS Cradle or keep the ammunition directly under the ejection port. It is an ideal location for 100 to 125 rounds of linked ammunition as the weight is located precisely on the guns center of gravity.

Fired cases and links impact the top of the BADS but are directed out and to the right by a metal deflector plate located above the stored ammunition. Primarily because bottom ejecting guns are very fussy about anything blocking the path of ejected brass links.

Wherever the bottom of the machine guns gets close to the grounds, rock or the deck of a vehicle or ship, it will eventually result in a fired case bouncing back up through the ejection port to cause malfunction caused spin back. These guns will be firing normally, then come to an abrupt halt, the operator finds a mangled case in the action. But he cannot positively attribute the stoppage as a fired case that studently bounced it way back up into the operating mechanisms. And the BADS have no separators.

The deflection plate serves another important purpose besides preventing spin backs, in BADS, fired both ammunition and links go spewing out of the Right, well away form the gunner. Spin backs can ever occur when ejected fired cases strike number of links and fired cases that have accumulated under the weapon. Eliminating both the spin back and burn hazard form the fired cases is a welcome design feature.

The linked ammunition does not like to be fold against itself; the round tips form one row has a bad habit to finding their way between the tips of the round in the adjacent row. And the one of the best features of BADS is the belt holding pawl. In order to keep the belt from falling back into the box.

A triangular steel spring drops into the space between linked rounds each time a new round ammunition is fed. Since the belt holding pawl block the feed way and it must be disabled during loading.

To do this the soldier takes a fired case or live round and insert between the pawl and outside wall of the box, this action holds the belt bolding pawl out of the feed path so ammunition may be loaded. After loading the round or fired case is removed and the pawl springs into action.

With a feed cover and tray raised, a keyhole slot on the BADS mounting Pad engages a feed box button found on every US made and Belgium made guns. Returning the feed tray to the fire position and latching the feed cover to closed securely clamps the BADS to the receiver. The feed box button prevents the BADS being wrenched away from during maneuvers.

Another one of the surprising features of the BADS is it height. It is surprising to see that the pistol grip and not the BADS come into contact with the ground first. When BADS loaded to it maximum capacity, only three magazine changes would be needed to fire 500 round compliments.