Posted: Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 4:05:10 PMBy: Kaloyan Dimitrov
IMI Desert Eagle .50 AE
The Israel Military Industries Desert Eagle is a large-framed gas-operated semi-automatic pistol designed by Magnum Research in the US together with IMI in Israel. The design for the Desert Eagle was initiated by Bernard C. White of Magnum Research, who filed a US patent application for a mechanism for a gas-actuated pistol in January 1983.This established the basic layout of the Desert Eagle. A second patent application was filed in December 1985, after the basic design had been refined by IMI (Israel Military Industries) for production, and this is the form that went into production.
The Desert Eagle uses a gas-operated mechanism normally found in rifles. When a round is fired, gases are ported out through a small hole in the barrel near the breech.
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