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Some years ago, Pakistan Army tested a few machines in order to simplify the cumbersome manually operated Gun Barrel Cleaning Protocol. The Army currently employs a manual system whereby a team of soldiers first puts a very toxic acid into the barrel and then uses a long rod tipped with a steel brush to 'shove' to back and forth for a good period of many hours to dissolve the rust and gun powder accumulated inside the barrel. This manual process is highly hazardous to human health and many soldiers have actually fainted or reported constant dizziness during the said process.
The systems that the Army tested mainly consisted of automated pneumatic air brush systems that move back and forth in the barrel without any involvement of human hands. These systems were tested also using foam as a cleaning agent that gave remarkable cleaning results. Some locally made systems by NUST etc) were also tested and few of them were employed on cleaning tank barrels. However the locally made systems essentially used crude technology but were preferred because of the very cheap prices. The cleaning results of the locally made systems were not very encouraging.
The foreign systems tested were from MILFOAM (Finland) and NIEBLING (Germany). Despite advancement of technology in this area, Pakistan Army unfortunately is still marred with the age old manual cleaning system for almost all of its large barrels!
The systems that the Army tested mainly consisted of automated pneumatic air brush systems that move back and forth in the barrel without any involvement of human hands. These systems were tested also using foam as a cleaning agent that gave remarkable cleaning results. Some locally made systems by NUST etc) were also tested and few of them were employed on cleaning tank barrels. However the locally made systems essentially used crude technology but were preferred because of the very cheap prices. The cleaning results of the locally made systems were not very encouraging.
The foreign systems tested were from MILFOAM (Finland) and NIEBLING (Germany). Despite advancement of technology in this area, Pakistan Army unfortunately is still marred with the age old manual cleaning system for almost all of its large barrels!
