In answering question concerning the post on the AR-10 belt fed light machine gun Ihave spent some time going through the ” The Armalite AR-10″ book. On page 314 of the book is a picture of a MG-09 light machine gun. The funny thing is that I had just seem that same weapon. It was on my back up hard drive and it was in a file of pictures of weapons that I had taken a while back. I had no idea what the weapon was, but that it just looked interesting so I snapped a few pictures of it.
This weapon bears a close resemblance to the T44 light machine gun designed by the United States after WW2.
These are the pictures I have of the MG-09. If you read the section in the book on page 313 and 314 it answers a few questions on the weapon.
A right side view
Left side view
A close up right side view of this weapon
The left side of the weapon with the side cover open
A close up view of the feed system.
The feed cover assembly looks like a very simplified version of a cross between a MG-34 and MG-42 top cover. An interesting design that never got beyond a working non firing mock up. Mock ups like cut away guns are a great way to study small arms design.
Conceptually, this looks like a follow on to the FG 42 that Ordnance grafted an MG.42 feed on right after the war.
I love this gun it looks like the original one.