recuperator 2

noundomain: artefact
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a mechanism which returned the gun barrel to its firing position after recoil.

  • 1.When World War I began, both the army and navy were in the process of introducing a "hydro-pneumatic" recoil system in which the recuperators were driven by air compression rather than springs.

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