Patent ID: 6899008
Filing Date: 2005-05-31
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
1. A gun barrel having a muzzle brake comprising: a gun barrel having a plurality of openings provided in a muzzle region of the gun barrel with the openings being disposed in a plurality of planes that are disposed one behind the other and extend perpendicular to a bore longitudinal axis of the barrel; a jacket tube having pairs of diametrically opposite gas-exit openings, which respectively extend, in slot form, in a circumferential direction of the jacket, disposed on an outer surface of the barrel and covering the muzzle region of the barrel having the openings; and a plurality of circular-ring grooves formed in an inside surface of the jacket, with each groove ending in a respective pair of the opposite slot-shaped gas-exit openings, and into which the openings of the barrel that lie in one plane terminate.