Huot Automatic Rifle | |
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Type | Automatic rifle Light machine gun |
Place of origin | Canada |
Service history | |
Used by | Canadian Army |
Production history | |
Designer | Joseph Alphonse Huot |
Designed | 1916 |
Produced | c. 1917–1918 |
No. built | At least 5 |
Specifications | |
Mass | 13 lb (5.9 kg) (empty) 19 lb (8.6 kg) (loaded) |
Length | 47 in (1,194 mm) |
Barrel length | 25 in (635 mm) |
Cartridge | .303 British |
Action | Gas-operated reloading |
Rate of fire | 475 rounds/min (cyclic) 155 rounds/min (continuous) |
Feed system | 25-round detachable drum magazine |
Sights | Iron sights |
The Huot Automatic Rifle was a Canadian World War I era light machine gun project.[1]