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Engineering and Research Company. The guns were tested immediately and some modifications of the first batch were requested and applied together with an order of a second batch of nine guns bringing the total number of guns manufactured up to 15 in June 1945. In July 1945 a comparative testing of the SAC-46 against other OSS weapons with similar applications followed. Only a crossbow, the
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February 1945 operational examples of the SAC-46 were requested for an actual OSS mission and a first batch of six guns was manufactured in April
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into three pieces: the main body and two 16 inch barrel parts. One of the barrel parts has the simple front sight mounted on to it. Fully assembled the gun is ca. 35.5 in long. It is possible to attach only one of the barrel parts to the gun to reduce the overall length at the cost of reduced
278:. The ammunition for the gun is a dart made of transparent red plastic with a metal tip and a rubber gasket at the base of the tip. The dart has four fins at the tail, is about 5.75 in long with a diameter of ca. 0.5 in. The gun can be
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are used. Due to her specialized applications and large size the gun is normally transported disassembled and is assembled and loaded just prior to the shooting. To load the gun the operator first has to insert a fresh
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from the cartridge shoots into the barrel behind the dart. The rubber gasket on the front part of the dart seals the gap between the dart and the inner side of the barrel so the pressure of the CO
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builds up in the barrel behind the dart and finally propels the dart out of the front of the barrel in the aimed direction of the gun. The shots of the SAC-46 were reported at a volume of 69
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